Amongst the minor exhibitions to which attention 

 is called in the report of the Superintendent of the Art 

 Gallery are the following : — 



1. The second series of Water-colour Drawings, illustrating the history of 



that popular British Art, has been lent by the Board of Education, and 

 duly returned. 



2. The collection of Brunei's sketches for the Clifton Suspension Bridge, 



lent by the Directors of the Great Western Railway Company, at the 

 instance of Lord Winterstoke, has also been exhibited. This collection 

 is of great local interest, and the best thanks of the Committee are due 

 to Lord Winterstoke for his interest in the matter. The Committee 

 were applied to for the loan of the large model of the Suspension 

 Bridge which formerly stood in the Bristol Room. The application was 

 made on behalf of the Toronto Exhibition in Canada, and the Committee 

 gladly added it to the important pictures referred to in the Superin- 

 tendent's report. No doubt this large model must have awakened many 

 recollections in the minds of those who celebrated the " West of 

 England day," in far-off Canada. 



3. Another collection which is seldom met with in a provincial Art Gallery, 



is that of Mr. G. E. Blood's complete set of J. M. W. Turner's "Liber 

 Studiorum." These have been arranged on the walls of No. I. Gallery, 

 and will no doubt prove as attractive as they are rare. 



Amongst those who visited the Museum and Art 

 Gallery during the year, probably none were more 

 influential than those who represented the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway, Messrs. C. M. Bosworth and G. Mc. 

 L. Brown, accompanied as they were by the Lord Mayor, 

 and the Chairman of the Docks Committee. Since then 

 the regular line of steamers has been running from 

 Avonmouth to Montreal, and it is pleasant to remember 

 that these representative men expressed the warmest 

 admiration at the many interesting exhibits that they 

 then beheld. This was especially noticeable with regard 

 to the pictures in the Galleries, and no doubt they 

 considered they represented much of the "go-a-head" 

 feeling that they found in Bristol. 



