ART GALLERY. 75 
By Living Artists. 
8 paintings in oil. 
11 water-colour. 
picture in pastel. 
pencil drawing. 
miniature. 
marble busts. 
bronze statuettes. 
) lithographs. 
5 etchings. 
colour prints. 
woodcuts. 
photogravure. 
keramic pieces. 
1 
1 
1 
2 
4 
3) 
3 
1 aquatint. 
6 
5 
if 
5 
3 portfolios of prints. 
All the purchases were made, as in previous years, from profits 
earned by the Autumn Exhibition account; no money from the 
rates having for many years been expended in the purchase of works 
of art for the Permanent Collection. The annual Exhibition 
surplus has, for a good many years, been steadily dwindling, in 
harmony with the general experience of Art Exhibitions: the 
result probably of the increase of counter-attractions; and, as 
a result, the Committee is no longer able to deal adequately with 
the duty of enriching the Permanent Collection with new 
acquisitions. It is a necessary matter of policy that the money 
earned by the Exhibitions should be spent in them, but, as no fund 
whatever is provided for purchases, apart from the small income of 
the Derby Bequest, which is especially set apart for the encourage- 
ment of rising artists, the Committee has found it necessary to divert 
