4 CHAIRMAN’S PREFACE. 
There is still one area which needs such provision, that of the 
district round Hornby Street, where the Corporation’s Model 
Dwellings are now housing thousands of people. There is an 
admirable site available, with frontages to Limekiln Lane and 
Hornby Street, where a Library, Reading Room, and Lecture Room 
could be erected, in conjunction possibly with a Gymnasium. Such 
a building would be of the greatest benefit to that thickly- 
populated neighbourhood. There is reason to believe the Committee 
could obtain the site as a gift if the building could be provided. For 
this they can only look to private generosity. It would be the fitting 
completion of their scheme of Libraries and Reading Rooms, and 
they anxiously hope they may be enabled to carry it out. 
That the Museums are continuing to attract and satisfy the public 
is shown by the increase in the average attendance by more than 
100 a day over that of 1909. It is a remarkable fact that for the 
past sixteen years the additions made to the Museum Collections, 
mostly by gift, have averaged 23 per working day. Many of these 
are, of course, of small value, but many are of very considerable 
worth, both in money and scientific interest. Schemes set on foot 
last year for a re-arrangement of some of the collections have since 
been more fully developed, and when they are completed the 
Museums will be rendered even more popularly attractive and 
scientifically interesting. The allocation of a good room entirely 
for the display of local antiquities has long been needed, and has 
now been made. 
The presentation of the Museum Report by Dr. Clubb, as 
Curator, is a consequence of the resignation of Dr. Forbes, who had 
been Director of the Museum for 16 years, during which he rendered 
valuable service in the arrangement of the new buildings. 
Important changes were made in 1910 in the Walker Art Gallery 
in the reconstruction of the Rooms on the Ground Floor, the 
provision of new Cloak Rooms, and the removal of the turnstiles. 
There can be no doubt that visitors much appreciate the privilege 
of free and unimpeded access to public buildings, and the early 
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