The Lord Mayor (Dr. Barclay J. Baron) gave a Reception 

 in the Museum and Art Gallery on June ioth to about 1,200 

 members of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows. 



The Museum and Art Gallery has been singularly free 

 from adverse influence on account of the war, whilst attend- 

 ances both in number and in the character of the visitors 

 have shown that the Institution is rendering real and helpful 

 service. 



The many convalescent soldiers, numbers from overseas, 

 who have come to Bristol to regain health and strength, have 

 made large use of the Museum and Art Gallery. Their 

 interest and enthusiasm have been most keen, and, in the 

 ca c e of Canadian and Anzac men especially, quite a number 

 have shown themselves keen naturalists, whilst one Australian, 

 afterwards invalided home, sent to the Museum from Australia 

 a small collection of beetles which he had made whilst on 

 active service in Egypt. 



The forethought of the Right Honourable the Lord 

 Mayor (Dr. Barclay J. Baron) in arranging for the exhibition 

 of a Machine gun, captured by the " Bristol Bantams " (14th 

 Gloucestershire Regiment), " somewhere in France," June, 

 1916, and of an unexploded, and now emptied bomb dis- 

 charged by a Zeppelin, was much appreciated by the City, 

 and caused a marked increase in the attendance of visitors. 



The loan collection of medals has continued to attract 

 the interest of soldiers, and these, with the war relics, seem 

 to indicate the desirability of securing from the Great War 

 material of real worth, which will be of value in future years 

 in determining the character of weapons used, and the results 

 achieved by them. 



An innovation in the character of the Museum and Art 

 Gallery literature was made in June by the issue of a half- 

 penny " What to See " Guide. So well was it received that 

 the first edition of 5,000 was exhausted by September, and 

 a second edition issued. 



