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§bijctttnt$ ilnnuaf (Report 



OF THE 



Corporation Art Gallery Committee. 



CHE Art Gallery Committee have pleasure in presenting to the 

 Town Council their Sixteenth Annual Report. The number 

 of visitors is about the same as last year, although the Gallery 

 has been open 22 days less. The average attendance shows improve- 

 ment, and on paying days is rather less than one-sixth of that upon 

 free days. Below is given a comparative table of the number of visitors 

 for the last three years. The total number of visitors since the opening 

 of the Gallery is 610,935. 



Three Exhibitions have been held during the past year, those for 

 the Autumn and Spring being on the usual lines, and consisting of 

 modern pictures in both oil and water colours. At both Exhibitions the 

 sales were satisfactory, although rather below those of last year. Addi- 

 tional interest was given to the Spring Exhibition by the loan of nearly 

 forty pictures from the fine collection of Merton Russell Cotes, Esq., 

 F.R.G.S., of Bournemouth, who placed the Committee and the Town 



