To the Council of the City and County 

 of Bristol. 



IReport of tbe Committee. 



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IN presenting their last report, the Museum and 

 Art Gallery Committee ventured to forecast a 

 favourable future for the combined institution, 

 and after the lapse of another year, they are glad to say 

 that their anticipations have so far been fulfilled. It 

 will be seen by the reports of the Curator and 

 Superintendent respectively, that the visits to the 

 Museum of Natural History have numbered 195,104, 

 and those to the Art Gallery 343,585, the combined total 

 being 538,689. This is considerably more than half a 

 million of attendances during the year. As the Art 

 Gallery must now be considered to have settled down to 

 its normal condition, this numerical result will no doubt 

 be as satisfactory to the Council, as it has been to the 

 Committee. To a large extent these numbers have been 

 made up by the attendance of schools, classes, and 

 individuals who have sought and have derived special 

 advantages from a study of the contents of the two 



