THE SECRETARIES' REPORT. 
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standard than in former years, and the Exhibition was, com- 
mercially, so successful that its promoters were enabled to hand 
over £15 to the Building Fund of your Institution. The growing 
importance of these Exhibitions, and the increase of members 
through the desire of artists at a distance to participate in them, 
calls for a representative of the Plymouth Art Club on your 
Council, and this is a measure which your Curator strongly 
advises. 
"The new room recently added to the Hall will admirably 
fulfil the present purposes of the Eine Art Department of your 
Institution; the light is excellent, and the wall space sufficient 
for a few years to come. The greatest credit is due to our 
architects for erecting such a handsome room in such a limited 
space. Your Curator believes it in no way represents the future 
Art Gallery of the Plymouth Institution, and he looks forward to 
the day when the present new room shall be turned into a Library 
and Reading Room, and the large space of unoccupied land 
covered with a building where valuable pictures, presented or 
purchased, shall be permanently placed, thus fulfilling the grand 
original intention of the founders when they erected this Hall 
for a threefold purpose — namely, the culture of Literature, Science, 
and Art." 
Athenaeum, April 3rd, 1882. 
