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Seventeeiitb Hnnual IRcport 



Corporation Art Gallery Committee. 



HE Art Gallery Committee have pleasure in presenting to the 

 Town Council their Seventeenth x\nnual Eeport, and in doing 

 so, express the opinion that at no period of its history has the 



Gallery been doing better work, or been more appreciated by the 



inhabitants. 



A comparative table of the number of visitors for the last three years 

 is given below, and shows that the numbers remain practically the 

 same, and also that the average number on free days is about six times 

 that on paying days. The total number of visitors to the Gallery since 

 its opening is 661,474. 



The Exhibitions held during the year have been four in number. 

 Mr. Merton Eussell Cotes 's fine collection of Oils remained for the 



