A Major General in the Army in India. Published a number of articles on insects including 'Description of a species of Meloe... found in all parts of Bengal, Behar and Oude, and possessing all the properties of the Spanish fly' in Asiatic Researches, 5, 1798, pp.213-217. Also published with J.E.Gray, Illustrations of Indian Zoology, 1830-1835. An article about this last by W.R. Dawson, together with some biographical notes on Hardwicke appeared in Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 3, 1946, pp.55-69. A further article in the same periodical by F.C.Sawyer (1953, pp.48-55) deals with the dates of publication of the Illustrations. Harwicke's work on Coleoptera in India is referred to by W.W.Fowler and other authors in the FBI series, eg. J.G.Arrow, Lamellicornia, part 2, 1919, p.90, Harwicke took types of Popillia cupricollis, Hope, in Nepal. His collection is referred to by F.W.Hope in J. Linn. Soc., 1 (2), 1833, p.92. I have a note that there is a mention of Hardwicke in Edward Balfour's Cyclopaedia of India, 1873, but I have not seen this, also that Hardwicke had drawings made professionally of the beetles in his 'Nepal Collection'. (MD 3/03)
Dates
d.1835