Appendix B to this report gives a variety of details respecting the attendance (with the rates of admission) and the financial result. It must be admitted that neither one nor the other came up to the expectations of this Committee. This Committee, however, annex a copy of the Catalogue of the articles exhibited, with much satisfaction, and confidently submit that the Exhibition, in itself, was such as few country towns have witnessed, and was most successful, and deserved to have been better supported. This Committee desire to express their warm thanks to the ladies and gentlemen who so kindly exhibited objects at the Exhibition. The small surplus will be devoted: one half to the promotion of the Library, by the purchase of furniture or fittings, and the other half to the development of a School of Art. The Committee, in concluding their report, are glad to be able to add that the establishment of a School of Art has resulted from the Art Exhibition. After it was ascertained that arrangements could be made with the Master of the Shrewsbury School of Art, a meeting was held in Welshpool, on Wednesday the 27th October, and a local Committee was formed for the establishment of a School of Art in connection with the Art and Science Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington, and the services of the Master of the Shrewsbury School of Art were engaged. The Committee consisted of the following, viz. :— Rev. J. E. Hill, Chairman. E. Maurice Jones, Esq. (Mayor). W. M. Howell, Esq., Secretary. S. Powell, Esq. Edward Jones, Esq. Morris C. Jones, Esq., F.S.A. Rev. J. J. Turner. Seventeen ladies had promised to join the afternoon class, and upwards of thirty young men the evening class. The prospects of the School are therefore encouraging. Sharing in the belief expressed in the Art Directory (p. 100), issued by the South Kensington authorities-"That the provision of a suitable building is essential for giving permanence to local efforts in establishing a School of Art," the Museum and Library Committee call attention to the fact, that if the foregoing plan were adopted in its entirety the rooms for a School of Art could be added at an expenditure of £450 to £500, towards which a grant of about £150 could be obtained, subject to certain conditions, from the Committee of Council, and also, at least, one donation of £50 is already offered, providing the building is erected next year. The Committee record these facts, that they may be acted upon when the occasion arises. The Committee have made a mutually advantageous arrangement with the Welshpool Reading Society, for the latter having the concurrent use of the reading room. Appendix (A) to the Museum and Library Committee's Report. LIST OF DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY BUILDING FUND. ... Balance in hand of previ- A friend ... ... The Earl of Powis Sir Edmd. Buckley, Bart. ... ... Sampson Lloyd, Esq.,M.P. ... Hon. C. Hanbury Tracy, ... Philip Wright, Esq. Messrs. Beck & Co. North and South Wales A. Howell, Esq. Edwin Hilton, Esq. Rev. J. E. Hill Lewis Lewis, Esq. ... 1 1 0 ... 1 1 0 1 1 0 Rev. G. Sandford 1 1 0 E. R. Morris, Esq. 1 1 0 ... Rev. E. Matthews A. W. Black, Esq. T. Rutter, Esq. 1 1 0 P. A. Beck, Esq. Appendix (B) to Museum and Library Committee's Report. STATEMENT RESPECTING THE ART EXHIBITION. Total receipts (including small amounts of " excess receipts" on several days) Total payments :- For carriage of parcels, Advertisements, Van from Liverpool, and Railway Insurance, Attendants, workmen fitting up, &c. 25 8 0 *Mr. D. P. Owen kindly made no charge for printing, but received the first Seven Years' Volumes of the Montgomeryshire Collections instead. The arrangement benefited this fund £3 15s., the amount received for Catalogues. OBITUARY OF MEMBERS OF THE POWYS-LAND CLUB. 1869. Jan. 29. May 23. 1870. May 15. CHARLES THOMAS WOOSNAM, Esq., Newtown. Major-General CHARLES THOMAS EDWARD HINDE, late of Oct. 30. Rev. JOHN EDWARDS, M.A., Rector of Newtown; Member of the Council. Nov. 16. 1871. Feb. 26. Mar. 3. Mar. 24. April 24. June 21. July 23. Dec. 5. Dec. 12. 1872. April 28. Sept. 4. 1873. Nov. 13. 1874. April 10. Rev. HARRY LONGUEVILLE JONES, M.A., Editor of Archao- He contributed an article to our third volume on "The Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart., Loton Park, Salop. EDWARD EVANS, Esq., Thorneloe House, Worcester. PRYCE BUCKLEY WILLIAMS, Esq., Pennant; Member of the GEORGE WOOSNAM, Esq., Newtown. WILLIAM PRYCE YEARSLEY, Esq., Welshpool. ARTHUR JAMES JOHNES, Esq., Garthmyl. JOHN PRYCE DREW, Esq., Milford House, Newtown; Rev. JOSEPH JONES, R.C. Church, Welshpool. ROBERT MAURICE BONNOR MAURICE, Esq., Bod ynfol. JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS, Esq., F.S.A., Holmwood Park, He published in the Herald and Genealogist an elaborate ROBERT DEVEREUX HARRISON, Esq., Fronllwyd, Welshpool. Nov. 25. R. H. STURKEY, Esq., Meifod. 1875. Aug. 11. Nov. 4. EDWARD WILLIAMS, Esq., of Neuadd feben, Talgarth. THOMAS BOWEN, Esq., Welshpool, Honorary Treasurer of the Club since its commencement in 1867. The POWYS-LAND CLUB exchange publications with the following Literary Societies, viz. :— The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Royal Institution, Edinburgh. The British Archæological Association, 32, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, London. The Royal Archæological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 16, New Burlington Street. The Cambrian Archæological Association, 37, Great Queen Street. The Royal Historical and Archæological Association of Ireland. Rev. J. Graves, Inisnag, Stoneyford, Kilkenny. The Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Royal Institution, Liverpool. The London and Middlesex Archæological Society, University College, Gower Street, London. The Surrey Archaeological Society, 8, Danes' Inn, Strand, London. The Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical Society, Fairless Barber, Esq., F.S.A., Castlehill, Rastrick, near Brighouse. The Chester Archæological Society, Chester. The Shropshire and North Wales Natural History Society, Henry Johnson, Esq., M.D., Shrewsbury. |