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invitation of Dr. Hoyle the members were able to visit Cardiff 
on their way home and examine the new buildings so far as 
they are erected. At Swansea, the delegates were welcomed 
by his Worship the Mayor and the more prominent of the 
Corporation members and officials. A visit was also paid to 
the large museum and educational buildings at Merthyr, by 
the invitation of the Merthyr Corporation. At this place a 
large castle and adjoining buildings on the outskirts of the town 
have been purchased for the purpose. 
SWANSEA PORCELAIN. 
At Swansea, the magnificent new Glynn Vivian Galleries were 
inspected, among the exhibits being what was described as the 
finest collection of Swansea and Nant Garw porcelain ever 
gathered together. This had been specially selected for the 
Conference and was of peculiar value to the curators having 
porcelain in their charge. A paper giving details of the art 
and craftsmanship of the potteries was read by Mr. Herbert 
Eccles of Neath, one of the greatest living experts on the 
subject. There was also a special exhibition of a useful series 
of old oak furniture, lacquer-work, and other objets d'art. 
The Royal Institution of South Wales at Swansea opened its 
doors to the members, and displayed its fine museum of 
geological, zoological and historical collections, as well as a 
valuable library. It was possible here to learn many lessons 
in museum matters, not only in what should be done, but what 
should be avoided. 
PAPERS READ. 
The members had a fairly strenuous week. The President, 
Mr. Charles Madeley of Warrington, took for his address, ' The 
Theory of the Municipal Museum.’ Mr. W. Grant Murray 
gave a description of the new galleries at Swansea in which the 
industrial and applied arts are happily illustrated. Mr. C. C. 
Grundy gave an address on ‘ Art in Wales,’ a subject also 
selected for the popular evening lecture by Mr. E. Rimbault 
Dibdin, of Liverpool. New methods of protecting and restoring 
works of art were dealt with by Messrs. R. Quick and I. J. 
Williams, and the difficult question of the arrangement of 
ethnographical collections was dealt with by Dr. Harrison of 
the Horniman Museum, who gave many useful hints on the 
subject. Mr. Reginald Smith described the new arrangements 
at the King Edward VII. Galleries at the British Museum, and 
Mr. Arthur Deane exhibited and described the designs for the 
magnificent new museum buildings being erected in Belfast. 
Bearing more directly on work in provincial museums were 
papers on ‘ The Museum and the Schools,’ by Mr. E. Howarth. 
‘ The Children’s Room,’ by Mr. B. H. Mullen, ‘ Museum Pub- 
lications,’ by Mr. H. Ling Roth, a suggestive paper on a new 
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