BREWER – Bill Krohn, author and professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Maine, will give a slide presentation about Manly Hardy during the meeting of the Brewer Historical Society at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, at the Brewer Auditorium.

Krohn, a resident of Brewer like Hardy, is the author of “Manly Hardy (1832-1910): The Life and Writing of a Maine Fur-buyer, Hunter, and Naturalist.”

Published in 2005, the book was sponsored by the Maine Folklife Center at the university. Hardy was the father of author-historian Fanny Hardy Eckstorm.

Manly Hardy, a hunter and trapper, wrote many articles that were published in Forest and Stream magazine. The articles are included in the book.

Hardy’s adventures ranged from a day’s walk between Allagash Lake and the Chesuncook House in soft snow, some 30 miles, to hunting porpoises in Penobscot Bay.

A friend of Molly Molasses, a childhood pal of Joshua Chamberlain, an acquaintance of fly-rod maker Hiram Leonard and conservationist George Bird Grinnell, Hardy commented on species from mink to mountain lion. His own bird collection numbered more than 3,000 mounted specimens.

Krohn’s book had its beginnings in research on the Canada lynx, work that kept turning up the name of Manly Hardy.

The professor also has written an article for Northeastern Naturalist and a book chapter on Hardy’s bird collection.

The historical society usually meets at its museum on Wilson Street, but organizers said they moved this meeting to the auditorium to give plenty of room for the public to attend.