4 GENERAL REPORT. 
Exhibition, and their purchases of works for the permanent 
gallery, though they have been criticised, have on the whole been 
very judicious, with the result that our permanent collection is not 
only popular but it is one of the best examples of the art work of the 
last twenty-five years in the country, and more than this it does not 
claim to be. The works of the old masters and of the old English 
School are placed out of the reach of the Committee by the conditions 
which attach to the Autumn Exhibition from which the funds for the 
purchase of pictures are obtained. 
WILLIAM B. FORWOOD, 
CHAIRMAN. 
