[Proceedings United States National Museum, Apx^endis.] 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



TJIC-ITED STATES IST^TIOlSr^nL. Ml XJ S E U M! , 



No. 1. 



PI.AIV OIF OKGAlVIZATflOIV AIVD KEGUIiATIONS. 



Washington, October 1, 1881. 



Sir : In compliance with your request, I have prepared a code of reg- 

 ulations for use in the National Museum, which I herewith submit to 

 you for your criticism. 



They are in large part merely formulations of the unwritten laws 

 and usages which have guided the officers of the Museum in past years, 

 and which have now become so numerous and comi^licated that it has 

 seemed necessary to reduce them to some tangible form. 



To the code of rules has been i)refixed a brief statement of the scope 

 and aims of the Museum, as already defined by yourself in the reports 

 of the Smithsonian Institution and elsewhere. 

 I am, sir, yours very respectfully, 



G. BKOWN GOODE, 



Assistant Director. 

 Prof. Spencer F. Baird, 



Director National Museum. 



[General Order No. 3.] 



CJnited States National Museum, 



Washington^ October 15, 1881. 

 The accomj)anying code is adopted for the government of the National 

 Museum, and for the regulation of the operations of its officers and 

 employees. 



All the i)rovisions of former general orders are hereby annulled, and 

 the provisions of the present code will hold in force unless they are ex- 

 l^ressly changed by future general orders. 



Ofliccrs and employees are requested to become familiar with its pro- 

 visions, and to aid in carrying them out. 



SPENCEE F. BAIED, 

 Director U. 8. National Museum. 

 N M 1881 1 



