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cause mentioned above; so that the real additional cost of the free 
day has been about £12. On the other hand, the sales of catalogues 
have been much larger, and the catalogue value of pictures sold during 
the year has risen from £360 to £1024, a result gratifying alike to the 
Committee and to the artists who exhibit. 
The Autumn Exhibition was a very good one indeed, and the Art 
Union in connection with it realised £117 8s., the highest amount yet 
reached. 
In the Spring Exhibition, the experiment of the previous year was 
repeated with much success, a number of good pictures by Continental 
artists being added. Both years the Committee have been much 
indebted to the Messrs. W. & J. DieRKEN, of the Continental Gallery, 
for valuable and attractive loans. 
For the Summer Exhibition, the Committee were fortunate enough 
to secure the loan of the “First Travelling Historical Collection of 
Water Colours” from South Kensington Museum. This interesting 
collection numbered 176 examples and was of inestimable value to Art 
Students, as well as interesting to the general public. The Committee 
wish to gratefully acknowledge the readiness with which the Museum 
authorities met their request for this loan, as well as for the endeavours 
made to meet their wishes when the annual change of loan objects took 
place. 
The Autumn Exhibition now in progress was opened on October 4th, 
and seems likely t» be as popular as its predecessors. During the four 
weeks it has been open, it has been visited by 5,400 persons, and the 
sales have, up to the present, been satisfactory. 
The picture “Coriolanus” by W. Hamitron, R.A., presented to 
the Art Gallery by E. H. Pares, Esq, J.P., of Hopwell, and briefly 
referred to in the last Report, has now been received, and put in position. 
It is a fine work of art, and will form a valuable addition to the 
permanent collection. 
The Seventh Season of Saturday Concerts arranged by the Curator 
was fully as successful as its predecessors. Sixteen concerts were 
given which yielded a profit of about “10. The whole series of concerts 
during the last seven winters now numbers 125, and the profits to 
the Art Gallery have reached £170. To the Curator, and all those 
ladies and gentlemen who have so kindly assisted him, the Committee 
desire once more to present their heartiest thanks. 
A heavy loss has been experienced by this Committee in the death 
of Mr. Feitx JosEpu, in August last. From the time he first set foot in 
the Art Gallery, he had been its zealous friend and supporter, and his 
gifts to it had been almost continuous. ‘The magnificent collection of 
