GENERAL REPORT. 



The Committee have encouraged original research by our Museum 

 Staff, and the Bulletin published quarterly has already taken its place 

 among the leading scientific periodicals of the day. 



The Sokotra Expedition yielded some 2,000 specimens, of which 100 

 species are new to science, and the whole are new to our collection. The 

 action of the Committee in sending out this Expedition has been most 

 warmly appreciated in scientific circles. 



Our Art Gallery has been further enriched by the purchase of four 

 important works from the Autumn Exhibition. It is difficult to bring 

 home to the people of Liverpool the very magnificent Gallery of pictures 

 they now possess. Our Curator, in his admirable report, directs attention 

 to special pictures which mark our Gallery as one of great excellence, 

 and the fact that our pictures are now valued at over £100,000 is another 

 proof of the quality and extent of our collection. Unfortunately we arc 

 short of hanging space, and a further extension of the Galleries is much 

 needed. 



The Autumn Exhibition is now firmly established in the confidence 

 of the artists, and in the appreciation of the public. The Committee 

 have shewn great public spirit in making this Exhibition as beautiful 

 and as attractive as possible, and they have been rewarded by great and 

 increasing success. They ask for the support of the picture buying 

 public of Liverpool, as the more pictures sold out of our Autumn Exhibi- 

 tion the greater the inducement to artists to exhibit; and certainly our 

 Autumn collection is the linest display of art work of the year in the 

 country, for not only do we ingather the best pictures from the Spring 

 Exhibitions in London, but we have the advantage of securing the 

 pictures painted during the Spring and Summer after the London 

 Exhibitions arc opened. We, therefore, have every opportunity of 

 making our Autumn display widely representative. 



WILLIAM B. FOKWOOD, 



Chairman - . 



