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Your Committee are pleased to be able to report that 

 the free opening of the Institution has been greatly appreciated 

 by the public on all ordinary occasions whilst on public 

 holidays the Museum has been visited by very large numbers. 



Your Committee found upon taking possession that the 

 staff maintained by the Association would be quite inadequate 

 for carrying it on as a Public Institution and that a complete 

 re-arrangement would be necessary. Your Committee 

 determined to continue the services of Mr. Edward 

 Wilson, F.G.S., who had been for many years Curator of 

 the Museum, and who in addition to his intimate knowledge 

 of the collection is eminently qualified for the position, at 

 a salary of £200 per annum. Mr. E. R. N. Mathews, 

 who had been Librarian to the Association, having been 

 appointed Librarian of the Free Lending Libraries, your 

 Committee have appointed Mr. L. A. Taylor, son of the 

 late City Librarian, and for many years employed in the 

 Free Libraries, Librarian of the Reference Library in 

 connection with the Museum at a salary of ^130 per 

 annum. 



Your Committee have further engaged a sufficient number 

 of Assistants and Attendants to carry on the Institution in 

 the altered circumstances, having regard both to the 

 convenience of the public and the safety of the property. 



Your Committee considered it only becoming that the 

 exterior of the building which has for so many years remained 

 in an unfinished state should as soon as it became the 

 property of the Corporation be completed according to the 

 original designs, and fortunately being able to obtain through 

 Mr. W. V. Gough, Architect, the original drawings 

 prepared by the late Mr. Foster, the Architect of the 

 building, they are having the decorations completed under 

 his supervision. 



