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Borough, and for this preparations are being forwarded with despatch ; 

 the other is to serve the New Normanton region, and will follow 

 close on the Alvaston building. 



Negotiations are also going forward, through the generous interest 

 of Earl Curzon of Kedleston, for the acquisition by the Reference 

 Department of the Central Institution, of the Library collected by 

 the late Sir Henry Bemrose at great cost and labour. The details 

 of this scheme belong rather to the immediate future than to the 

 past year. 



No important change is to be recorded in the Library Staff, whose 

 capable and conscientious services the Committee gladlj^ acknowledge. 

 They note with regret the sad street accident on June 3rd, by which a 

 promising young junior-assistant, Ernest Smith, lost his life, and the 

 temporary absence through indisposition of the Curator, Mr. G. H. 

 Button. In the 



MUSEUM 



Department an increasing list of donations is recorded (see page 18), 

 among which the birds from the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910- 

 1912, are the most interesting. These are sho\\n temporarily in a 

 special case together with other objects illustrating life in Antarctic 

 regions. A re-arrangement has been made among the contents of 

 the wall-cases, in which all Derbyshire mammalia have been brought 

 together in one series. 



The following three seasonable exhibitions were held in the 

 ART GALLERY. 



Autumn Exhibition of Modern British Paintings, 12,577 visitors. 



Spring Exhibition of British Water-colour Drawings, 10,865 visitors. 



Summer Exhibition of Views and Relics of Old Derby, 21,822 

 visitors. 



Comparing these with last year's exhibitions, it will be seen that 

 there is a total increase of nearly 10,000 visitors. The Old Derby 

 Exhibition proved very popular ; 258 pictures, plans, etc., and various 

 other objects were on view, nearly the whole of which were kindly lent 

 for the purposes by various residents in the town and county. Special 

 arrangements were made, in conjunction with the Education Committee, 



