Hardy, Jas: admon of estate of Jas Johnson Hardy of Woodspoint, Vic., solr, died 24 June 1872 at same place was granted at Dublin, 23 April 1884 to Deborah Brillianna Foley, 99 Lower Baggot St., Dublin, widow one of the acting execxs of Philip Dixon Hardy the father. Effects £756 5s.

From February 23 to April 30 a flock of about one hundred visited the University campus daily, feeding principally upon the samara or key-fruits of the box-elder trees, also the seeds of sugar-maples, and leaf buds.

Quite a considerable number of low-level Eur-Asian species have succeeded, partly with human assistance, in rounding the great mountain-masses on the west and north-west, and established themselves as components of a flora which is derived mainly from the south and the east; while the paucity of the silvestral species indicates that the mountains have proved an effective barrier on the north to the direct passage of Eur-Asian plants.

Much of his subsequent work related to processes for resolving what he once called undeadly quarrels in the international arena.