ACCOUNTS ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 11 



The British Museum, Bloomsbury (including the Departments 

 o£ Printed Books and Maps, Manuscripts, Oriental Printed Books 

 and Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, Egyptian and Assyrian 

 Antiquities, Greek and Etonian Antiquities, British and Mediseval 

 Antiquities and Ethnography, and Coins and Medals) is normally 

 open to the public free daily (except on Good Friday and Christmas 

 Day and days of Public Fast or Thanksgiving). 



At present, however, the provision for keeping the galleries 

 open having been suspended by His Majesty's Government in the 

 interests of economy, the Exhibition Galleries are wholly closed to 

 the public, though the re-opening of certain galleries with a tem- 

 porary exhibition is in contemplation. The Reading Room is open 

 to Students from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Newspaper Room and 

 Manuscript Students' Room from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on every 

 weekday except Good Friday, Christmas Day, and the first four 

 weekdays in March and September. 



British Museum, ) Frederic G. Kenyon, 



25th April 1918. J Director and Principal Librarian. 



