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the best thanks of the Committee are due to His Worship for the interest 
he has always shown in the prosperity of the Art Gallery. The number of 
pictures exhibited is rather less than last year, but there is no falling off in 
quality or in public interest, 4,668 persons having visited the Gallery 
during the first five weeks, and eleven pictures of the value of 4151 hav- 
ing already been sold. 
The fourth series of Popular Concerts took place on the Saturday 
evenings of last winter. They were attended by 4,084 persons, who paid 
£54 2s. for admission. The net cost of the series was £23 18s., so that 
they yielded a profit of 430 4s. The concerts were not so numerously 
attended on the whole as in the previous year. Their success has led to 
the organisation of concerts similar in character in other places on the 
same evenings. ‘The best thanks of the Committee are due to the Curator 
for his trouble in organising and arranging these pleasant evenings, and to 
all those ladies and gentlemen, too numerous to mention, who have given 
their services. 
_The usual change of objects in the South Kensington cases was effected 
in December last: they are of a highly attractive character, and such as 
are likely to be a valuable aid to the art and industry of the town. Through 
the good offices of Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen, an additional case has been 
filled with early Cyprian pottery and glass, and the fine collection of 
Chinese and Japanese objects belonging to Lady Hart, which was for some 
time on view at South Kensington Museum, has by her Ladyship’s kind- 
ness been transferred to our Gallery. The thanks of the Committee are 
also due to Mr. W. Bemrose, J.P., for his loan collection of Indian metal 
work ; to the Rev. T. R. Stevenson, of Shanghai, for his Indian and Cinga- 
lese curiosities ; to Canon Olivier and Mr. F. J. Robinson for their Derby- 
shire vases; to Mr. and Mrs. Maw, of Tenant Street, for their specimens 
of Derby China; and last, but not least, to Mr. Felix Joseph, of Brighton, 
for the loan of a portion of his matchless collection of Wedgwood ware. 
In conclusion, the Committee think that the town may be congratu- 
lated on the increasing interest which is being manifested in art, to which 
the Art Gallery cannot have failed to contribute. They are glad to note 
its increasing usefulness and popularity, and the small cost to the town 
at which it is maintained; and they will rejoice when they feel they are 
in a financial position largely to extend its educational benefits, by throwing 
it entirely open. 
On behalf of the Committee, 
WM. BEMROSE, 
Nov, 4th, 1889. CHAIRMAN, 
