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1911 
1912 
1913 
HISTORICAL SUMMARY. 
Mr. Joseph A. Clubb, p.sc., Deputy Curator, appointed Curator of Museums 
in succession to Dr. Forbes, retired. 
Afternoon Conference of Chairmen of Museum Committees and Museum 
Curators from towns in the North of England, held in the Museums, 
18th October. 
A Special Collective Exhibit of Paizitings by Tom Mostyn (27 items) was 
arranged in room N of the Walker Art Gallery, the first of the kind 
to be included in the Autumn Exhibition. 
The Library Association held their 35th Annual Meeting in Liverpool, 2nd—5th 
September, under the presidency of Councillor Frank J. Leslie, F.R.G.S., 
Chairman of the Library, Museum and Arts Committee. 
Hours of duty of Lending Libraries Staffs revised, and the services of Evening 
Assistants discontinued. 
A Legacy of £10,000 bequeathed by the late Thomas Bartlett, of 12, Pembroke 
Place, Liverpool, to be devoted to an extension of the Walker Art Gallery, 
such extension to be (if possible) identified with the Donor’s name. 
Mr. Charles Dyall, first Curator of the Walker Art Gallery, died on the 13th 
October, 
A Special Exhibit of 28 Paintings by John Lavery, a.R.a., arranged in 
room N of the Walker Art Gallery, formed part of the Autumn 
Exhibition. 
Councillor Francis W. Bailey, m.n.c.s., u.R.c.P., elected Chairman of the 
Lectures Sub-Committee, in succession to Councillor Richard Ruther- 
ford, J.P. 
The Old Swan Reading Room and Book Delivery Station (the gift of Mr. Andrew 
Carnegie, LL.D.) opened on 4th June by Councillor E. C. Given, M.1.c.2., 
Chairman of the Libraries Sub-Committee. ; 
Site purchased for new Reading Room and Book Delivery Station in Edge Hill 
District (Beaumont Street). 
Incorporation of Allerton, Childwall, and Woolton. Transfer of the Much 
Woolton Public Library to the Library, Museum and Arts Committee, 
9th November. 
Councillor C. Sydney Jones, m.a., elected Chairman of the Museums Sub- 
Committee in succession to Councillor H. R. Rathbone, B.a., elected 
Lord Mayor of Liverpool. 
The first meeting of the British Association Committee, formed at Birmingham 
to report on the work of Museums as institutions for education and 
research, was held in the Liverpool Museum in November, The Lord 
Mayor was elected on the Committee and attended. 
Special items included in the Autumn Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, 
were: (1) Memorial Exhibition of works by the late Sir Lawrence 
Alma Tadema, o.m., R.A. (44 examples), lent by various Collectors; 
(2) Collection of 61 Paintings by modern French and Dutch Artists, 
lent by Denys Hague, Esq., London; (3) Collective Exhibit of works 
by Emil Fuchs, m.v.o. (46 items). 
At the inaugural banquet, Autumn Exhibition, Mr. Fuchs presented to 
the Permanent Collection his marble Sarcophagus, entitled ‘ Sisters,’ 
to mark his appreciation of the sympathy shown by the Committee 
towards his work. 
