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Museums open to the poorest; but in Australia, these are con- 

 spicuous by their absence. Yet the humanising and refining 

 influences of these institutions are unreservedly admitted, and if 

 these influences have been productive of good in those parts of the 

 world, would it not be the same here ? After all, the State might 

 do worse than aid the cause of Australian Art. 



Addendum. — Since the above paper was read, the Trustees of 

 the New South Wales Art Gallery have been furnished with 

 the means of making annual purchases of suitable pictures from 

 the periodica] exhibitions of the Art Society of New South Wales, 

 such purchases being added to the National Art-collection. 



