gamation of the Ellison and Smith galleries. Under this head may fitly be noticed the great fresco "The Arts of War," by Sir Frederick Leighton, P. R. A., completed in 1879, one of the most important and attractive features of the museum. The companion fresco, "The Arts of Peace," will be commenced by Sir Frederick Leighton this year.

NATIONAL ART LIBRARY.

34. Each annual report has recorded the additions made to the various divisions of the National Art Library. The following is a summary :

All publications on art, British and foreign, have, as far as possible, been added to the library when issued; the older works necessary to complete the various classes into which the collection is divided being acquired as opportunity offers. Thus the series of the rare and artistic lace pattern books published in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has now been made one of the most complete existing in any public library. The collection illustrating early book ornament, initial letters, title pages, &c., has also become important, as has also that dealing with the works, now much sought for, of the book illustrations of the eighteenth century. A valuable collection of books, pamphlets, and illustrations of pageants, gathered during upwards of twenty years in the various countries where they appeared, was lately acquired. Works illustrating costume have also been sought for, and this series is now extensive and fairly complete.

36. The publications have been enumerated in the annual reports. Large illustrated catalogues, with historical introductions, of the maiolica, furniture, and wood-work, bronzes, gold and silver smiths' work, glass vessels, water color drawings, musical instruments, fictile ivories, and Swiss coins (Townshend collection), have been issued for the department by the stationery office since 1873. In order to bring the infor mation contained in these within the reach of all classes of art students, a series of illustrated hand books on various branches of art has from 1875 onwards been issued by Messrs Chapman and Hall, Limited, under our authority, several of which are based on the historical introductions of the catalogues already mentioned, while others are original works. Some science hand books in the same form have also been issued. These publications are sold at the catalogue stall in the museum and in institutions connected with it, at 1 shilling each. Thirty-three volumes have thus been published, and the sale has been considerable.

EDUCATIONAL COLLECTIONS.

37. The library and collections of school furniture and fittings and other educational apparatus comprised under the educational division, were originally intended to form one group, illustrating all appliances used in education, from models of buildings, examples of desks, seats, &c., to books for school use. They have, however, been widely separated, owing to lack of suitable space. The (educational) library has grown to dimensions far beyond what was at first contemplated. It at present contains 45,099 volumes. A table, on page 522, shows the number under each subject. The present reading room, the third since the formation of the division in 1857, though slightly built for temporary use, is fairly well suited to its purpose. The number of readers during the past 10 years has been 218,625, an average of 21,862 per annum. The collection of school furniture is at present crowded into very unsuitable quarters in the corridors, &c., of the exhibition galleries, and when a better position can be found it will require considerable revision. We have invited the co-operation of a committee of gentlemen conversant with educational requirements, who will examine and report on this division.

ATTENDANCE ON SCHOOLS AND CLASSES OF SCIENCE AND ART.

60. The numbers of persons, who have, during the year 1882, attended the schools and classes of science and art in connection with the Department, are as follows, viz: 68,581 attending science schools and classes in 1882, as against 61,177 in 1881, and 909,216 receiving instruction in art, showing a decrease upon the previous year of 481.

64. The total number of persons, therefore, who receive direct instruction as students, or by means of lectures in connection with the Science and Art Department in 1882, is 986,085, showing an increase of 1,235 as compared with the number in the previous year.

READERS IN LIBRARIES.

65. The attendance at the Art and Educational Libraries at South Kensington and at the National Library of Ireland, in 1882, has been 85,837, or an increase of 888 over that of last year.

VISITORS TO MUSEUMS.

66. The museums and collections under the superintendence of the Department in London, Dublin, and Edinburgh, were last year visited by 2,476,049 persons, showing an increase of 11,511 on the number in 1881. The number of visitors to the South Kensington Museum shows a decrease of 55,298, the numbers being 1,017,024 for 1881, and 961,726 for 1882.

67. The returns received of the number of visitors at the Local Art and Industrial Exhibitions, to which objects were contributed from the South Kensington Museum, show an attendance of 1,553,083.

TOTAL ATTENDANCE.

68. The total number of persons who, during the year 1882, attended the different institutions and exhibitions in connection with the Department, has been upwards of 5,015,217. This total, compared with that of the previous year, presents an increase of 203,959 persons.

EXPENDITURE.

69. The expenditure of the Department during the financial year 1882-'83, exclusive of the vote for the geological survey, which was £18,536 178. 4d., amounted to £326,826 178. 3d.

70. As 30 years have now elapsed since Your Majesty was graciously pleased, in Your Majesty's speech from the throne, at the opening of the parliamentary session in the year 1853, to indicate that a comprehensive scheme for the advancement of the fine arts and of practical science would in that year be submitted to Parliament, we have deemed this to be a fitting opportunity for submitting to Your Majesty a statement, showing the progress and development of the Department during that period. This paper immediately follows our report.

All which is humbly submitted to Your Majesty.
South Kensington, this 21st day of May, 1853.
[L. 8.]

(Signed)

CARLINGFORD.
A. J. MUNDELLA.

Established in connection with the Board of Trade in March, 1853, as a development of the Department of Practical Art, which in 1552 had been created for the reorgani zation of Schools of Design. Placed under the direction of the Committee of Council on Education in 1856.

COMPLETE LIST OF PRESIDENTS AND VICE-PRESIDENTS.

Board of Trade:

182. Rt. Hon. H. Labouchere, M. P. 132. Rt. Hon. J. W. Henley, M. P.

1-53. Rt. Hon. Edward Cardwell, M. P.

1555. Rt. Hon. Lord Stanley, of Alderley.

Committee of Council on Education:

1:56. Rt. Hon. Earl Granville, K. G., lord president. 1:56. Rt. Hon. W. E. Cowper, M. P., vice-president. 1858. Most Hon. Marquess of Salisbury, K. G.

1858. Rt. Hon. Sir C. B. Adderley, K. C. M. G., M. P. 1:59. Rt. Hon. Earl Granville, K. G.

1839. Rt. Hon. Robert Lowe. M. P.

1-64. Rt. Hon. H. A. Bruce, M. P., vice-president.

1866. His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.

1966. Rt. Hon. H. T. Lowry Corry, M. P.

1-67. His Grace the Duke of Mariborough, K. G.

1-67. Rt. Hon. Lord Robert Montague, M. P.

1962. Most Hon. Marquess of Ripon, K. G.

16. Rt. Hon. W. E. Forster, M. P.

1873. Rt. Hon. Lord Aberdare.

1-73. Rt. Hon. W. E. Forster, M. P.

174. His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, K. G.

1874. Rt. Hon. Viscount Sandon, M. P.

1878. Rt. Hon. Lord George Hamilton, M. P., vice-president. 1880. The Earl Spencer, K. G.

1880. Rt. Hon. A. J. Mundella, M. P.

13. The Rt. Hon. Lord Carlingford, K. P.

13. The Rt. Hon. A. J. Mundella, M. P.

183. Secretary Sir Francis R. Sandford, K. C. B.

1884. Secretary Colonel Donnelly, R. E.

Only the complete list of the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the Department, from its first inception, and of the Acting Staff of the Art Division, the latter as given in the 1885 Calendar, are included. The staff of the General Administration, numbering some 46 persons; the staff of the Science Division, numbering some 76 persons; with some 52 other persons connected with the Geological Survey, the Royal College of Science in Dublin, the Trustees of the National Library, etc., are omitted.--EDITOR ART REPORT.

LIST OF OFFICIALS AND INSTRUCTORS OF THE ART DIVISION IN 1885.*

Art division. Staff 1885.

Director.-T. Armstrong.

Assistant Director.- H. A. Bowler.

Official Examiner.-T. Chesman, B. A., LL. B.

Assistant Examiner.-J. A. D. Campbell.

Art Examination Clerk: M. Webb.

Professional Examiners for Art, 1884.—(1) For the National Art Competition: E. J. Poynter, R. A.; G. D. Leslie, R. A.; W. F. Yeames, R. A.; H. S. Marks, R. A.; J. E. Boehm, R. A.; G. Aitchison, A. R. A.; H. Thornycroft, A. R. A.; W. Morris; J. J. Stevenson; Walter Crane, and W. C. Unwin, B. Sc.

(2) For Art Masters' Certificates: C. W. Cope, R. A.; J. Marshall, F. R. S., F. R. C. S.; Dr. Zerffi; T. Roger Smith; W. J. Glenny.

Occasional Examiners.- Eyre Crowe, A. R. A.; E. Bellamy, F, R. C. S.; W. B. Scott, A. F. Brophy; D. W. Raimbach; J. S. Rawle, F. S. A.; J. Harrison; G. M. Atkinson; G. R. Redgrave; S. Nesbitt; W. W. McCarty; W. Hepworth; J. I. Williamson.

NATIONAL ART TRAINING SCHOOL.

Visitor.-E. J. Poynter, R. A.

Principal.-J. C. L. Sparkes.

Registrar.-Col. Sussex W. Lennox.

Mechanical and Architectural Drawing: H. B. Hagreen.

Geometry and Perspective: E. S. Burchett.

Painting, Free Hand Drawing of Ornament, &c., the Figure and Anatomy, and Ornamental Design: T. Clack; F. M. Miller; G. Morton; W. P. Watson; W. Norris ; T. W. Cole.

Modelling: E. Lantéri; F. M. Miller; R. Stark.

Lady Superintendent of Female Classes.- Miss Trulock.
Instructors.-Mrs. Casabianca; Miss Channon.

Lecturer on Decorative Art.-H. Stannus.

Occasional Lecturers.—On Anatomy: Edward Bellamy, F. R. C. S. On Historic Ornament: Dr. Zerffi. On Chemistry of Paints and Painting: Prof. A. H. Church, M. A., F.

C. S.

INSPECTION.

Inspectors of Local Schools of Science and Art.-R. G. Wylde; Capt. W. de W. Abney, R. E., F. R. S.; F. B. Barwell; C. A. Buckmaster, M. A.

Occasional Inspectors for Science.-J. Norman Lockyer, F. R. S.; A. Sheridan Lea, М.А.

Occasional Inspector for Navigation.-Captain Harris, E. I. C.

Occasional Inspector for Art.-Eyre Crowe, A. R. A.

Organizing Master of Science and Art Classes.-J. C. Buckmaster, F. C. S.

SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM AND BETHNAL GREEN BRANCH.

Director.-Sir P. Cunliffe Owen, K. C. M. G., C. B., C. I. E.

Assistant Directors.-R. A. Thompson; Lieut. Col. E. R. Festing, R. E.

Director of New Buildings.—

Decorative Artist.-R. Townroe.

Museum Keepers-(Art Collections), G. Wallis, F. S. A.; (National Art Library), R. H. Soden Smith, M. A., F. S. A.; (Educational Library and Collections), A. C. King, F. S. A.; (Indian Collections), C. Purdon Clarke, C. I. E.; (Machinery and Inventions), Lieut. Col. A. H. P. Stuart Wortley.

Assistant Museum Keepers.-W. Matchwick, F. L. S.; H. Sandham; R. Laskey; R. F. Sketchley, B. A., Exeter College, Oxford; H. E. Acton; J. W. Appell, Ph. D.; J. Barrett, B. A.; C. H. Derby, B. A.; H. M. Cundall; A. B. Skinner, B. A.

Junior Assistants.-R. F. Martin; W. W. Watts.

Special and Technical Assistants.-W. E. Streatfeild; A. Reid; F. Coles; W. G. Johnson; F. P. Macanlife; O. S. Scott; W. J. Hill; W. T. Key; W. Wallis. Superintendent for Examples and Publications.-J. H. Cundall.

Calendar and General Directory of the Science and Art Department for the year 1885. Being a supplement to the thirty-second report, London, printed for Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1885, pp. 225, price. 18.

EDINBURGH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART.

Director.-Prof. T. C. Archer, F. R. S. E.

Keeper of Natural History Collections.-Prof. R. H. Traquair, M. D., F. R. S.
Curator.-Alexander Galletly.

Assistant in Natural History Museum.-J. Gibson.
Assistant in Industrial Museum.-W. Clark.

Clerks.-C. N. B. Muston; T. Stock; A. B. Steele.

SCIENCE AND ART MUSEUM, NATIONAL LIBRARY, SCHOOL OF ART, AND BOTANIC GARDENS, DUBLIN.

Visitors of the Science and Art Museum and Botanic Gardens.-The Duke of Leinster; the Earl of Rosse, F. R. S.; Lord Ardilaun; Sir R. Kane, M. D., F. R. S.; Sir S. Ferguson, Q. C., LL. D., Rev. J. H. Jellett, D. D., Provost T. C. D.; the Viscount Powerscourt, D. L., K. P.; C. Uniacke Townshend, Esq.; Samuel F. Adair, Esq., J. P.; G. W. Maunsell, Esq., D. L.; G. F. Fitzgerald, Esq.,.F. T. C. D., F. R. S.; G. Johnstone Stoney, Esq., D. Sc., F. R. S.

Head Master.-R. E. Lyne.
Second Master.-F. Luke.

Principal Mistress.-Miss M. Julyan.

Occasional Lecturers.-Prof. Alexander Fraser, Artistic Anatomy; W. R. M’Nab, M. D., F. L. S., Botany.

Clerk and Registrar.-G. S. Watts.

ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY.

Secretary.-B. Colles Watkins, R. H. A.