302 MEMORIAL WINDOW TO DR HARDY 



that twice during his lifetime we gave substantial testimony 

 to our appieciation of his services, as it is a satisfaction 

 to us to meet here to-day, and in this last public act to 

 perpetuate his memory. But if the fact that he was so 

 faithful a servant to the Club as its Secretary would not 

 altogether justify the particular form which our recognition 

 takes to-day, neither would the fact that he was a 

 distinguished student of Nature, though his ability and 

 success in that line of study were quite exceptional. To 

 study was the work of his life, and he applied himself to 

 it with a zeal and industry which never flagged. Up to 

 the very end his interest in it was unabated. It was not 

 one branch of the natural science that he pursued, but 

 many. 



One has only to glance over the list of his contributions 

 to the Club's Proceedings to see how varied and manifold 

 were the subjects which he studied. Flowering plants, 

 mosses, lichens, birds, butterflies, beetles, spiders, do not 

 exhaust the list. And in connection with all of them he 

 made interesting discoveries, and b}' his observations added 

 new species to those already recorded. And everything 

 relating to the antiquities of the Borders had a special 

 charm for him. He was an authority in Border genealogy ; 

 the history of every castle and keep was known to him ; 

 he was familiar with the legends and traditions of every 

 district ; nothing came amiss to him that touched Border 

 life — either in the present or in the past — from the stone 

 age to the present day. And his accumulating stores of 

 knowledge he utilised for the benefit of the Club. Year 

 by year, from 1839 downwards for nearly sixty years, he 

 enriched our Proceedings by valuable papers — botanical, 

 ornithological, entomological, antiquarian. Almost all his 

 work was done in connection with the Club, to whose 

 Proceedings he contributed no fewer than 264 papers or 

 notices. 



His industry was prodigious. He would copy not only 

 long papers, but whole books verbatim. Even his corres- 

 pondence was phenomenal, for he never wrote a short letter, 

 but entered minutely into every subject he was consulted on. 

 He must have been observing and recording his observations, 



