§ MR. HOLLAND (Yorkshire, W.R., Rotherham)I beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works whether there are numbers of Turner drawings stowed away in boxes at the National Gallery; and. if so, whether he will take steps to have them distributed amongst other picture galleries.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINPerhaps I may answer this Question. Besides the drawings exhibited at the National Gallery, and the collections which are lent to galleries in the provinces, there are eleven tin boxes containing rough sketch notes chiefly in pencil, on leaves of small pocket books. But the contents of these boxes have been repeatedly silted, and everything at all fitted for exhibition selected from them.