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1907 
HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 
Councillor Edwin Berry elected Chairman of the Lectures Sub- 
Committee, in succession to Councillor A. Crosthwaite, elected Lord 
Mayor of Liverpool. 
Key's Plenum System of Heating and Ventilation installed in the Brown 
Library and Museum, June 1901. 
Councillor Arthur Crosthwaite, gs.p., elected Chairman of the Lectures 
Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor E. Berry. 
Toxteth Branch Library, Windsor Street, opened by Mr Andrew Carnegie, 
15th October. The Library was transferred from the old premises in 
Upper Parliament Street. 
Removal of plateau fronting Brown Library and Museum, and alteration of 
approaches to the building. 
Councillor J. Harrison Jones elected Chairman of the Museums Sub- 
Committee, in succession to Mr. Morris P. Jones. 
The Wavertree Branch Library, Picton Road, opened by Councillor 
Robert Durning Holt, s-p., Deputy-Chairman of the Library, Museum, 
and Arts Committee, 12th May. 
Opening of the Rawdon Reading Room, Breck Road, Anfield, by Councillor 
William Evans, s.p., 18th October. 
Mr. E. Rimbault Dibdin appointed Curator of the Walker Art Gallery, 
in succession to Mr. C. Dyall, retired. 
The Northern Photographic Exhibition, under the auspices of the Liverpool 
Amateur Photographic Association, held in the Walker Ait Gallery. 
(An exhibition under the same auspices also took place in 1907 and 
1911.) 
The Kirkdale Branch Library, Brock Street, opened by Alderman J. N. 
Stolterfoht, Chairman of the Libraries Sub-Committee, 21st June. 
The Andrew Carnegie Branch Library, Green Lane, West Derby (the 
gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie) opened by Sir William B. f'orwood, 
D.L., J.P., Chairman of the Library, Museum, and Arts Committee, 
27th June. 
Extension of the Museum Aquarium completed. 
Councillor William Permewan, m.p., elected Chairman of the Museums 
Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor J. Harrison Jones, resigned. 
A special collection of some 5C0 volumes of popular literature (History, 
Biography, Travel, Science, Industry, &c.) provided for Brown Reading 
Room on open access shelves, 
Inauguration of the Hugh Frederick Hornby Art Library, on 26th 
ctober, by Mrs. Madden, of Sandown Hall, Wavertree, to whom an 
illuminated address (enclosed in silver casket) was presented by the 
Library, Museum and Arts Committee. During the ceremony a marble 
bust of the late Hugh Frederick Hornby, executed by Mr. C. J. Allen 
on the commission of the Committee, was unveiled by Colonel H. H. 
Hornby, s.r. The Hornby Library building is an annexe to the Picton 
Reading Room. 
Opening of the New Galleries of the Museums Extension by the Right 
Honourable Frederick-Arthur, 16th Earl of Derby, k.cG., 19th October. 
The Walker Art Gallery first opened to the public in the evening. The 
Gallery was first experimentally opened on Monday evenings, this 
being afterwards altered (successfully) to Saturday evenings. 
The collection of Botanical literature forming the Library of the Liver- 
pool Botanic Gardens transferred by the Parks and Gardens Committee 
to the Reference Library. 
Dryden Street Evening Reading Room opened, 21st October. 
Councillor H. Chaloner Dowdall, m.a., B.c.u., elected Chairman of the 
Museums Sub-Committee, in succession to Dr. Permewan. 
Exhibition of the Art of W. Holman Hunt, o.m., p.c.u., held in the 
Walker Art Gallery. . 
