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The collection of objects lent by South Kensington Museum was 
changed as usual in December last. Suggestions made by your Com- 
mittee as to the objects desirable for loans were as usual readily met by 
the Museum authorities, and the selection of textiles, leather-work, 
Oriental pottery, and electrotypes have proved very valuable to art 
students, who have made good use of their opportunities for studying 
and copying these fine examples, and applying the knowledge thus gained 
to the manufactures of the town. 
The sixth series of Saturday Evening Concerts was given during last 
winter. Sixteen concerts were given between Nov. 1st and March 28th. 
They were attended by 2,482 persons, and cost about £12. The amount 
received in admission fees was £31 os. 6d., so that they yielded a profit 
of £19. The Committee’s hearty thanks are due to the Curator, and 
to those ladies and gentlemen who so cheerfully give their services in 
providing these pleasant evenings, which already number 109, and have 
resulted in placing £160 to the credit of the Art Gallery funds. 
Any report on the Art Gallery would be incomplete without a special 
reference to the continued liberality of Mr. Felix Joseph. Whereas last 
year we had to report that the collection so generously presented by him 
numbered about 350 specimens, we have to announce the receipt during 
the past year of more than a hundred additional specimens, the whole 
collection now numbering 452 pieces. It contains examples of every 
period of the manufacture, and specimens of almost every type of article 
made; and is in every sense what the generous donor intends, a typical 
collection of Derby ceramics. It will in course of time be completely and 
exhaustively labelled, so as to be of real value to the collector and the 
student of ceramic art, as well as interesting to the general public. The 
Corporation, on October 21st, in public meeting assembled, presented 
Mr. Joseph with an illuminated address, and a handsome vase, decorated 
with the Borough Arms and other emblems, and specially made by the 
Royal Crown Derby Works. The address was signed by the Mayor, the 
Chairman of the Library Committee, the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and 
Curator of the Art Gallery. The meeting was a most successful one, 
His Worship the Mayor gave an admirable address, the formal vote of 
thanks to Mr. Joseph was moved by Mr. Alderman Hobson, J.P. and 
seconded by Mr. Alderman Sowter, J.P., and Mr. Joseph made a most 
genial and telling speech in response to the presentation. In the evening 
of the same day, Mr. Joseph attended the Conversazione already referred 
to. The Committee can only reiterate their hearty thanks to Mr. Joseph 
