IN MEMORIAM.— DR HARDY 353 



was a note of sadness in his reference to the future, 

 which he felt could not hold in store for him many 

 more years. Where so much goodwill was shown by all, 

 it may perhaps appear invidious to single out individual 

 members of the Club for special mention in connection 

 with this matter, but the services of Dr Hardy's life- 

 long friend, Dr Stuart of Chirnside, and those of Mr 

 Boyd, Faldonside, and of Mr Hindmarsh, Alnwick, cannot 

 be altogether passed over in silence. The honours paid 

 to Dr Hardy towards the close of his career came late, 

 perhaps, but all who cherish his memory must rejoice 

 that they did not come too late, and that his talents, 

 and the work he did, received their meed of recognition 

 before he quitted the scene of his labours and went to 

 his rest. 



And so the long life, filled with its manifold activities, 

 wore away. Long after the allotted span of three score 

 years and ten was passed, there was apparent no dimin- 

 ution of either physical or intellectual force, and his 

 work was done with evident ease and enjoyment. In 

 the winter of 1894, however, the vigorous frame showed 

 signs of weakening. A severe attack of shingles, accom- 

 panied by serious liver derangement, confined him to 

 the house for many weeks, and the bodily strength then 

 lost was never afterwards fully regained. A blow on 

 the forehead sustained through an accidental fall at 

 Berwick, on the occasion of the Club's annual meetiner 

 on 9th October 1895, had for immediate effect an apparent 

 re -invigorating of the nervous system, enfeebled by 

 protracted illness, but left him subject to sudden attacks 

 of bleeding at the nose, pointing to some cerebral lesion. 

 Thereafter his strength visibly declined. In the two 

 following seasons he was able to attend only four field 

 meetings of the Club, the last being the excursion on 

 29th September 1897, to the source of the Whitadder, 

 which he then saw for the first and last time in his life. 



