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During the year there have been some notable 

 gatherings of men and women, who, from various points 

 of view have found attraction in the contents of the 

 buildings. For instance, although for convenience the 

 gathering could not be held in our own buildings, but had 

 to be in the Council Chamber, some hundred or more of 

 the employees of the Post Office, under the leadership of 

 Mr. E. J. Burt, a member of this Committee, and " one 

 of themselves," met, to receive from the Chairman, an 

 explanation of the historical and artistic peculiarities of 

 the Civic Insignia. There was also a visit from the 

 members of the Clifton Antiquarian Club, under the 

 presidency of the Lord Bishop, to whom the Chairman 

 expounded the History of some of the interesting 

 objects in the Museum of Antiquities. The papers then 

 read have since been printed and illustrated in the sixth 

 volume of the proceedings of the Club, pp. 23-45. The 

 Bristol Naturalists' Society and their friends also paid 

 another visit to the Museum of Natural History. A 

 lecture on " Shell Life of Land and Sea," was then 

 delivered in the Lecture Theatre by Harold W. Atkin- 

 son, MA. As might have been expected, the visitors 

 were greatly interested in the contents of the new 

 Greville Smyth room, which they saw, with other 

 exhibits, under the guidance of the Curator. 



On the 26th of September the Lord Mayor 

 "received" in the Art Gallery the members of the 

 Incorporated Law Society, who like other public bodies 

 were meeting in Bristol for Conference. The visit 

 appeared to be greatly appreciated by those for whom 

 it had been arranged. They were much interested 

 in the contents of the Museum and Art Gallery, which 

 came as a revelation to many who had come from a 

 distance. 



