been added to the Gallery, which now cause this department to rival in attraction the older portion. It may here be re marked that the fund at that time voted was expended by 1884, so that since this time the Gallery has been dependent, for the purchase of new pictures, on the sums which may have been voted afresh during each financial epoch. Side by side with these acquisitions through public funds, we may place since 1880, the purchases from the income derived from the Prbll-Heuer Endowment. The painter Max. Heinr. Ed. Prbll, who was named after his foster-father, the artist’s colourman Anton Heuer, Prbll-Heuer, left the Gallery, at his death in 1879, a considerable sum as an endowment, from the proceeds of which pictures approved by the Academic Council were yearly to be bought from the Dresden Academic Exhibition, and the Gallery has to thank this Endowment for some hundred of the best pictures by modern masters, acquired during the last twenty-five years. Of bequests and presentations within the last few years, we will only name seven: Professor Bertrand’s presentation, by which in 1882 the Gallery was enriched by five excellent pictures of Anton Graff (N os - 2173—2177); Moritz Winckler’s bequest, by means of which in 1884 nine pictures at once found place in the Gallery; the bequest of Ed. Nossky in 1893, through which no less than seventeen old and two modern pictures were acquired; Hofrat W. Lesky’s presentation in 1897 through which the Gallery obtained A. Bbcklin’s »Pan and Syrinx«, the presentation of the Artist’s own Portrait by W. Triibner, the first wing of the Uhde Altar by Herr L. Uhle; Bbcklin’s »Summer-day« by Herr Geh. Kommerzien- rat Lingner; and three landscapes by A. G. Koch, and six by A. L. Richter by Herr Ed. Cichorius, to whose kindness the Gallery is also indebted for the fine »Kitchen-interior« by W. Kalf. ‘ The time has not yet arrived to enter into further details concerning the administration of the last few decades. At the same time, now that more than a quarter of a century has elapsed since the present Director was appointed, it might not be out of place to indicate at least the aims which he has had in view. First and foremost comes the compilation