74 ART GALLERY. 
“ T was fortunate in having Alderman Lea as my companion 
“throughout. I anticipate that the experience will prove 
“ useful when we have occasion hereafter to deal with questions 
“relating to German art. 
“T have previously suggested for consideration that the 
“Committee might with advantage provide a good and educa- 
“tional novelty in the Autumn Exhibition by having a room, 
“or rooms, devoted to the art of a particular country, instead 
“of a miscellaneous Continental room; and, after seeing what 
“is being done by German artists of various schools, I am of 
‘opinion that German art may be recommended as a subject 
“of a first experiment.” 
For various reasons, but chiefly because of difficulties with 
lenders caused by apprehensions as to the threatening attitude 
of a certain section of the community towards galleries of art, a 
proposed Loan Exhibition of pictures by Erskine Nicol, G. Paul 
Chalmers, Sam Bough, and Alexander Fraser, was indefinitely 
postponed. 
On 11th April I was elected a member of the Council of the 
Imperial Arts League, from which I anticipate that benefit will 
result to the Gallery. The League, founded in 1909, has a member- 
ship of about 900, associated to provide a central organisation for 
the Empire, to which all members can appeal for advice or assist- 
ance in all matters of business in connection with any branch 
of the fine or applied arts. One of the principal results of the 
League’s influence was their effective aid in bringing about, 
chiefly at my instigation, a modification in the recent Act of 
Parliament relating to copyright, by which the copyrights owned 
by public galleries are protected from infringement. 
During the year the various Branch Libraries were visited. 
The frames of the pictures in the Wavertree Library were regilt 
and the canvases attended to. 
The work of compiling a new and adequate catalogue of the 
Permanent Collection is now approaching conclusion, and it is 
expected that during the current year it will be in print. 
