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Such was the substance of the report of the Sub-committee 

 made to a meeting" of the subscribers at Bradford on the 8th of 

 Ma}^ 1901, when they recommended that the balance be handed 

 over to the Hon. Treasurer of the Y. N.U. as a Soppitt 

 Memorial Fund to which "at all times additional subscriptions 

 will be welcome, and which after defraying- certain charges which 

 have still to be met (i.e. such as removal to the place finally 

 selected, etc.), may be used for the purchase of suitable works 

 on mycolog-y. 



The report concluded with thanks to those who so 

 generously responded to the appeal, and to the Bradford City 

 Council and its courteous librarian (Mr. Butler Wood) for 

 allowing the meetings of subscribers to be held there. 



The Library and Herbarium were accepted with thanks by 

 the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, and were deposited in its 

 library at Leeds pending the choice of a suitable place for its 

 safe-keeping. A Sub-Committee consisting of Mr. Crossland, 

 the Hon. Secretaries, and Hon. Librarian of the Union, having 

 been appointed, negotiations were entered into with the 

 authorities of the Bradford Public Library and of the 

 Huddersfield Technical College and Museum. Rventually it 

 it was decided that as the herbarium was of more importance 

 and greater extent and needed more care and attention than the 

 library, it would be more suitably housed at a museum, where 

 the specimens could be made available for examination, and the 

 offer of the Huddersfield Technical College was accepted. 



The removal from Leeds to Huddersfield was made in the 

 spring of 1902, and Mr. Thos. W. Woodhead, F.L. S. consented 

 to act (and was appointed) as Soppitt Librarian and Curator. 

 The conditions agreed upon were that the Library and 

 Herbarium should remain permanently the property of the 

 Y.N.LT., who should have power to remove them to any other 

 place upon reasonable notice being given, and that the books 

 should always be available for borrowing by any Member or 

 Society of the Union, subject to the Union's Library Bj-laws ; 

 this privilege to be also extended for the present to the 

 subscribers to the Memorial Fund. The books a''e also to be 

 available for consultation within the College by students of the 

 College and visitors to the Museum. The specimens are to 

 remain in the Museum (unless by leave of the Y.N.U. trustees), 

 and are to be labelled or marked as belonging to the Soppitt 

 Memorial, and subject to this the College have the privilege of 

 incorporating them in their general herbarium or displaying 

 them in the Museum, in such manner as to be of most service 

 for scientific investigation ; and the College authorities to 

 have the duplicates for use in their laboratories, or for class 

 demonstrations. 



An agreement to be drawn up and duly signed and sealed 

 embodying these and such other provisions as are desirable, the 

 Union nominating Mr. Charles Crossland, F.L.S., Mr. George 

 T. Porritt, F.L.S., and Mr. William West, F.L.S., as Trustees 

 of the Library and Herbarium. 



