78 ART GALLERY. 
During the year rooms have been used for the following special 
exhibitions :— 
1. Exhibition of Drawings by children of the Liverpool 
Public Elementary Schools, 22nd May to Ist June. 
2. Exhibition by Members of the Liverpool Academy of 
Arts, 29th May to 22nd June. 
3. Exhibition of Lithographs by Members of the Senefelder 
Club, Ist to 20th July. 
4. Forty-second Annual Autumn [Exhibition of Modern 
Art, from 5th October, 1912, to 4th January, 1913. 
On 24th July a reception was held, by Sir James and Lady Barr, 
of the Delegates attending the British Medical Association 
Meeting, and the whole of the Galleries were placed at their 
disposal, in conjunction with the Library and Museum. 
On the following morning, July 25th, the Breakfast Conference 
of the National Temperance League in connection with the above 
was held in this Gallery. 
On 4th September the death took place of Mr. Thomas Bartlett, 
of 12, Pembroke Place, Liverpool. The deceased gentleman, who 
was deeply interested in this Institution, bequeathed the sum of 
£10,000, to be applied in the building of, or partly the purchase of, 
freehold land for and as to residue in the building thereon of an 
addition to the Walker Art Gallery in the City of Liverpool, and 
to be identified (if possible) with the donor’s name. This bequest, 
however, has not as yet been formally communicated to the 
Committee. 
On 18th October, 1912, at the age of 82, the death also took 
place of my esteemed predecessor, Mr. Charles Dyall, first Curator 
of this Gallery, who retired from active service in 1904. 
The Autumn Exhibition was open during 78 days and 52 
evenings, from 5th October, 1912, to 4th January, 1915. The 
catalogue comprised 2,614 items, as against 2,540 in 1911, and the 
collection was similar in plan to that of 1911, including amongst 
