THE MUSEUM. 



Various additions have been mad* to the Museum during the year, 

 chiefly by gift, details being given in tlie taoles which follow. Loans 

 of Natural History specimens to the School of Art have been of much 

 service to that Institution, as well as finding use for our duplicate 

 specimens. A cabinet has been prepared for Derbyshire insecte, and 

 the members of the Derbyshire Entomological Society have under- 

 taken to collect specini'^ns. In the development of tne Entomological 

 section of the Museum your Committee have received tne assistance 

 of Dr. W. St. A. St. John, who has kindly promised to act as Honorary 

 Adviser to the Museum Sub-Committee. 



THE ART GALLERY. 



Three Exhibitions have been Leld, as follows : — 



Autumn Exhibition of Oil Paintings, 16th October, 191.3, to .31st 



January, 1914. 12,386 visitors. 

 Spring Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings, iotii February to 



23rd May, 19U. 9,866 visitors. 

 Summer Exhibition of Embroideries, 12th .June to 26th September, 



1914. 16,729 visitors. 



The Exhibition of Oil Paintings was the first in the galleries 

 devoted exclusively to works in this medium, and the new arrange- 

 ment of holding separate exhibitions for oil paintings and water-colour 

 drawings has proved a success and enabled the exhibits i.o be shown 

 to better advantage. The Embroideries Exhibition was an attempt 

 to encourage the study of applied art in one of its branches, and the 

 large number of visitors shows that the efforts of your Committee 

 were appreciated by the pubHc. In securing the specimens of em- 

 broidery for this exhibition the Committee were indebted for much 

 kind assistance to Mr. W. G. Paulson Townsend, of London, Miss 

 Keay, of the Municipal Secondary School, and Miss Salt, of the Hastings 

 Street Central School. To these and many others thanks are herein 

 tendered. The beautiful examples of work done by scholars at the 

 local schools were quite a revelation of the high excellence which the 

 art of needlecralt has reached among our own scholars. 



Your Committee recently decided to hold an exhibition of works 

 by " Wright of Derby " in the Autumn of this year, but this has been 

 postponed until the new galleries are ready, as it is thought that such 



