FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT, FOR I904. 25 



chiefly come from Lincolnshire, most of the British marsh plants 

 are represented. The name of the collector is a guarantee for 

 accurate identification. 



It is recommended that the following be elected for 1905 : — 



Chairman — Prof. P. F. Kendall, Leeds. 

 Convener — Dr. W. G. Smith, Leeds. 

 Representative on Executive — P. P". Kendall. 

 Representatives of Committees and Sections — A. White, 



Leeds; G. T. Porritt, Huddersfield ; W. Hewett, York; 



J. W. Taylor, Leeds; J. F. Robinson, Hull; W. West, 



Bradford ; W. Ingham, York ; J. E. Wilson, Ilkley ; 



Godfrey Bingley, Leeds; F. F.Walton, Hull; K. McLean, 



Harrogate. 



Soppitt Memorial. — Mr. Woodhead writes : — This 

 library continues to be of use to members. It has frequently 

 been consulted at the Technical College, Huddersfield, during 

 the year by local members, and fifty-three volumes and papers 

 have been circulated. Since the last report was issued, the small 

 debt has been cleared off by the kindness of an anonymous donor. 



The Committee consists of Messrs. C. Crossland, G. T. 

 Porritt, and W. West (Trustees), with Mr. T. W. Woodhead 

 as librarian. 



The Library. — In accordance with the instructions of 

 the General Committee, your Executive has carefully considered 

 the question of dealing with the Union's library, and after care- 

 ful consideration, it was decided to dispose of it, en bloc, to some 

 permanent institution within the county. After communicating 

 with the various libraries and similar institutions in Yorkshire, 

 negotiations were entered into with the Hull Public Libraries' 

 Committee, who eventually purchased the collection of books 

 and pamphlets for ;^i2o. The library is now catalogued and 

 housed in the Reference Department of the Central Public 

 Library at Hull, where any of the books can at any time be 

 consulted by our members. The amount received by its sale, 

 as well as that for the book-cases (^5), enables the Union's debt 

 to be wiped out, and the Union is spared the further expense of 

 housing and cataloguing the collection. 



Report of the Delegate to the British Associa- 

 tion. — Mr. W. West writes : — Two meetings of delegates were 

 held. At the first one the President, Principal E. H. Griffiths, 

 delivered an address, in which he stated that the chief object of 

 these ;neetings was to quicken a general interest in the study of 



