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LOANS. 



In resiwnse to a letter from H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, as 



President of the Royal Commission for the Paris Exhibition of 1878, 



the Committee have promised to lend, for the Department Illustrative 



of British Art, the following pictures : — 



" Serf Emancipation ; " by E. Armitage, R.A. 



"Richard II. Resigning the Crown to Boliugbroke;" by Sir John Gilbert, 

 R.A. 



" Dinner Time at Purbeck Quarries ; " by A. D. Fripp. 



During the holding of the Autumn Exhibition the lower rooms were 

 open gratuitously to the public. They were filled by the Pictures, 

 Sculpture, and other Works of Art, the property of the Corporation, 

 including a Collection of the Works of the late L. R. Mignot, and the 

 valuable Ceramic Ware, chiefly Satsuma, the property of Major Walter. 



In addition to the Works of Art presented to the Gallery, Mr. 

 Casartelli, of Oldhall Street, has gratuitously furnished the rooms with 

 Self-acting and other Thermometers, in addition to a handsome 

 Barometer and Thermometer for the lower Vestibule. 



Signed, on behalf of the Committee, 



J. A. PICTON, 



Chairman. 



15 JUL 1898 



