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BY the unexpected death of this geologist, on the 30th ult., Irish Science has been deprived of one of her most promising followers. Mr. Hardman was born in Drogheda in 1845, and distinguished himself by the position he took at the Grammar School there, gaining a Government Exhibition and an entrance to the Royal College of Science in Dublin. He soon displayed his strong natural bent towards scientific pursuits, and when he quitted the College he had gained its diploma of Associate and taken a prominent place among its foremost students, more particularly in the departments of chemistry and geology. In 1870 he was appointed to the Geological Survey, and threw himself with characteristic ardour into the prosecution of field-work, while his knowledge of chemistry and mineralogy led to his being employed in special services where this knowledge was made available in the work of the Survey. His reports on the Tyrone and Kilkenny coal-fields are good examples of the extent of his knowledge and of his powers of literary expression. He also made his mark by the publication of papers outside the limits of official work. His interesting and suggestive memoir on the origin of Lough Neagh and his papers on anthracite and chert are well known.
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Edward T. Hardman . Nature 36, 62 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036062a0
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