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Students. 

 44 Students have been admitted during the year. The pictures chiefly 

 selected bv students for copying were — " A New Light in the Hareem " — 

 " Friday " — ■" Ruth and Naomi " — " Dante and Beatrice " — " Saving the 

 Guns " — " Love's Baubles " — " Meadow Sweets " — " And when did you last 

 see your father.'" — and "Lorenzo and Isabella." 



Additions. 



The undermentioned Works have been added to the Permanent Collection 

 during the year : — 



By Purchase from the Autumn Exhibition. — " The Road to Camelot," 

 by G. H. Boughton, r.a. ; " Youth and Age," by H. Windsor- 

 Fry, b.b.a. ; and " A Shaft of Light," by Edward G. Hobley. 

 By Donations. — "Alexander Von Humboldt," Marble Bust by R. Willig ; 

 bequeathed by Mr. A. H. Lemonius. " Jephthah and his Daughter," 

 Marble Group, by Giovanni Fontana; presented by Mrs. Fontana. 

 " Tlie Pass of the Cateran," by John Smart, r.s.a. ; bequeathed by 

 Mr. Samuel Stitt, and " Sir John Bent," by Philip Westcott, r.a. ; 

 presented by Mr. R. John Frank. 



The .Spring Exhibition. 



An Exhibition of Arts and Crafts was organised by the Committee, and 

 opened by the Lord Mayor (the Rt. Hon. John Houlding) on Saturday, 

 February 12th. 



The Exhibition was very extensive and complete. It comprised a large 

 contribution from South Kensington Museum, of examples of the Arts of 

 India, in textiles, ceramics, wood-carving, metal-work, etc., which completely 

 filled the Grosvenor Room. Mr. Purdon Clarke, the Director of South 

 Kensington Museum, gave a most valuable and interesting lecture on 

 Indian Art. 



There was also an extensive collection of Decorative Art Objects, the 

 productions of the pupils of the School of Art, and University College, the 

 Liverpool School of Science, Technology, and Art, and the Board Schools. 



Two rooms were occupied by the Liverpool Amateur Photographic 

 Association, who contributed a most excellent and varied collection of the 

 work of their members. The pictures were arranged by the Association. 



A large room was also devoted to an Exhibition of the works of the 

 Liverpool Architectural Society, which celebrated its jubilee bv holding a 

 banquet in the Gallery, on the 18th of April. 



The Exhibition, as a whole, was regarded by competent judges to have 

 been the finest display of Arts and Crafts ever got together in Liverpool. 

 The Committee regret, however, that it did not receive that support from 

 the pubhc that its merits deserved. 



