To 
TENTH ANNUAL REPORT 
or 
Che Corporation Art Gallery Committee, 
HE Art Gallery Committee have very great pleasure in presenting 
to the Town Council their Tenth Annual Report. The Gallery 
has been open 278 days, and the number of visitors is shown 
in the following table :— 
| | 1889-90.| 1890-91.| 1891-92. 
| —_—$<$§£—— |—__ 
| Visitors to Autumn Exhibition ... .«:| 12776 | 15842 | 20027 
- Spring x ae ...| 12540 | 30799 | 20648 
a Summer 06 Ea --- 5958 | 10045 | 11289 | 
Total Visitors sti «| 31274 | 56686 | 51964 | 
Total Days Open by Payn ent ... el 200 209 194 
53 a Peewee. noe at 43 44 84 
| Total Days Open ... see] 249 253 278 | 
| Average on Paying Days a3 eel Oz, 82°6 78°3 
3 Free Days ... a | 3895 |)47727 | 43778 
| 
These figures, the Committee think, are highly satisfactory. The 
attendance last year was altogether abnormal, including, as it did, some 
nineteen thousand visitors who came to see the addresses presented to 
Her Majesty the Queen. Deducting these, the attendance shows an 
increase of fourteen thousand on last year, and of twenty thousand on 
1889-90. ‘That the extra free day granted by the Council is appreciated 
is proved by the fact that the average attendance on each of the $4 
days is only about 4o less than it was on the 44 days of the previous 
year; and that out of the grand total of visitors, more than two-thirds 
came on the free days. The highest attendance on a free day was 
1165 on September 22nd, and, on a paying day, 782 on June 6th. 
The amount to be asked for from the Council is £322, only 49 
more than last year, in spite of the additional free day, a result which 
is very gratifying. The receipts at the turnstiles have been £45 less 
than last year, but #34 of last year’s receipts were abnormal from the 
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