: WALKER ART GALLERY. 
The Curator has the honour to report in reference to the work 
during the year 1907 of the Department under the direction of the 
Art and Exhibitions Sub-Committee of the City Council. 
The year was one of unprecedented activity in the matter of special 
exhibitions, and as a result it was not possible at any time during 
it to show the Permanent Collection in anything approaching to 
entirety. As far as possible, in the intervals between the exhibitions, 
the pictures belonging to the Gallery were displayed, and those 
most sought after were not at any time removed from view. The 
cost of repeated removals, and the inevitable wear and tear of 
pictures and frames is one of several cogent reasons for extending 
the Corporation Art Galleries as soon as possible. In this connection 
it may be pointed out that during the year, notwithstanding the 
large number of persons attracted by the special exhibitions, the 
total number of visitors to the Gallery (which in 1906 was increased 
from 350,759 to 403,592 by the attraction of the complete display 
of the Permanent Collection), fell to 387,205. 
S On 29th May the following letter was submitted to the Art and 
Exhibitions Sub-Committee, and subsequently to the Library, 
_ Museum, and Arts Committee and the City Council : — 
* Pauls-moss, 
“ Whitchurch, 
“ Salop. 
* 18th March, 1907. 
“ Dear Mr. Dibdin, 
* “Tt has long seemed to me a misfortune that the 
%. original idea of a fine Permanent Gallery of pictures, belonging to 
the City of Liverpool, and free to the public, has been somewhat 
interfered with by using so many of the best rooms in the Walker 
