NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 



Corporation JUt (Salter}) Committee, 



THE Art Gallery Committee have much pleasure in presenting their 

 Ninth Annual Report. The Gallery has been open on 253 days, 

 and the numbers attending, as compared with the two previous years are 

 shown in the following table : — 



The large numbers opposite the Spring Exhibition are accounted for by 

 the fact, that some nineteen thousand persons passed the turnstiles during 

 the four days on which the casket and addresses presented to Her Majesty 

 the Queen were on view. These abnormally high numbers have been left 

 out in calculating the daily averages, and excluding them from the total 

 visitors, we should still have a grand total of 37,475, or some six thousand 

 in advance of last year. The average daily attendance has also steadily 

 increased, that on the free day by more than 20 per cent. The highest 

 attendance on a free day was 10,696 on May 19th, and on a paying day, 

 3,914 on May 20th, on both of which days the Royal gifts were on view. 

 Excluding these, the highest attendances were 838 on August 4th for a free 

 day, and 373 on March 28th, when admission was by payment. 



