W. E. Hoyle, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.E., Director of the 

 Manchester Museum, Victoria University. 



The meetings were unusually well attended by 

 museum curators, and delegates from all parts of the 

 British Isles; by members of the staff of the British 

 Museum of Natural History ; the Museum of Science 

 and Art, .Dublin ; the Victoria and Albert Museum, 

 South Kensington ; and by the following distinguished 

 foreigners : — Gheimrath Dr. A. B. Meyer, of Dresden, 

 Professor Dr. Conwentz, of Dantzig, Professor Dr. 

 Lehmann, of Alton a, and Mr. Brakstad, Norwegian 

 Vice- Consul in London. 



The opening meeting was held at the Council House, 

 where the Association was welcomed by the Lord Mayor 

 (A. J. Smith, Esq.), the High Sheriff (H. L. Riseley, 

 Esq.), and the Chairman of the Museum and Art Gallery 

 Committee (Alderman W. R. Barker, J. P.). Dr. Hoyle 

 delivered a valuable address on " The Education of a 

 Museum Curator," which was followed by a paper on 

 the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery read by Alderman 

 W. R. Barker. The latter paper has considerable local 

 and historical value, as in it the Chairman of the 

 Museum and Art Gallery Committee has traced the 

 development of the Institution from the origin of the 

 Library Society, founded in 1772 ; the establishment of 

 the Philosophical Society in 1808 and the "Bristol 

 Institution for the Advancement of Science and Art " in 

 1820 ; the fusion of the two as the Museum and Library 

 Association in 1872 ; the recent erection of an Art 

 Gallery, and the transference of the Library books to 

 the City Reference Library. It may be added that this 

 paper was adapted from a more extended historical 

 account which had been placed at the disposal of the 

 Committee, and which they considered so important 



