[Certificate of merit issued in honour of the] Geelong Nature Study Exhibition inaugurated by the Geelong Field Naturalists Club Easter 1905, presented to A.D. Hardy Esq. as a momento of having acted as a Judge at the First Nature Study Exhibition held in Australasia
"It was this exhibition that brought about the introduction of nature studies to the schools throughout Australia" -- newspaper cutting
Accompanied by a handwitten letter asking A. D. Hardy to act as a judge at the Exhibition and by a newspaper clipping from the "Letters to the Editor" section of the Geelong Advertiser (9/2/61) discussing the opening of the Exhibition, some other publications by the Club, and "well known names" associated with it