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NINTH: ANNUAL REPOR®E 
OF THE 
Corporation Art Gallery Committee. 
HE Art Gallery Committee have much pleasure in presenting their 
Ninth Annual Report. The Gallery has been open on 253 days, 
and the numbers attending, as compared with the two previous years are 
shown in the following table :— 
1888-9. | 1889-90.| 1890-91. 
Visitors to Autumn Exhibition... ...| 13095 | 12776 | 15842 
+5 Spring “6 0 ...| 7990 12540 | 30799 
35 Summer sf ok ...| 6874 5958 | 10045 
Total Visitors ae ...| 27959 | 31274 | 56686 
Total Days Open by Payment... me 217 206 209 
3 49 IMSS. | Gas oc os 45 43 44 | 
Total Days Open ... wea] 202 249 253 
Average on Paying Days ... a5 sey 65 70°7 82°6 | 
55 Free Days  ... bo ee BOTT, 388°5 | 477°7 
The large numbers opposite the Spring Exhibition are accounted for by 
the fact, that some nineteen thousand persons passed the turnstiles during 
the four days on which the casket and addresses presented to Her Majesty 
the Queen were on view. ‘These abnormally high numbers have been left 
out in calculating the daily averages, and excluding them from the total 
visitors, we should still have a grand total of 37,475, or some six thousand 
in advance of last year. The average daily attendance has also steadily 
increased, that on the free day by more than 20 percent. The highest 
attendance on a free day was 10,696 on May roth, and on a paying day, 
3,914 on May 2oth, on both of which days the Royal gifts were on view. 
Excluding these, the highest attendances were 838 on August 4th for a free 
day, and 373 on March 28th, when admission was by payment. 
