Landseer calls the President's attention to the cleaning of diploma pictures. He highlights
Etty's 'Sleeping Nymph and Satyrs',
Hilton's 'Ganymede' and
Turner's 'Dolbadarn Castle'. These, he says, are materially damaged, if not irretrievably ruined: "the high lights over cleaned and the darks less cleaned which makes them look brown and grubby, the delicate glazing rubbed away." He concludes that the paintings have been put into incompetent hands - all the more regrettable as there was a skilful and careful person at their service in Mr Merritt.