RETURN to an Order of The Honourable House of Commons, 

 dated 27 May 1818 ',—for 



COPY OF THE REGULATIONS 



For general Admission, together with the Directions respecting the Reading 

 Room, and the Regulations respecting the Admission of Students into the 

 Gallery of Antiquities, at The British Museuiai. 



REGULATIONS FOR GENERAL ADMISSION INTO 

 THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



THE Museum is open for public and general Inspection from ten till four 

 o'clock on the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in every week ; except in the 

 Christmas, Easter, and Whitsun Weeks, on Thanksgiving and Fast Days*, 

 and during the months of August and September. 



Persons who wish to see the Museum, will apply on one of those days, in 

 the anti-room of the house, between the hours of ten and two, where they will 

 be required to inscribe their names and places of abode, in a book to be kept 

 for that purpose ; upon which they will be shown into the apartments as soon 

 as the first rooms are sufficiently cleared for their admission. 



It is expected that persons who visit the Museum be decent and orderly in 

 their appearance and behaviour, the officers being instructed to refuse admission, 

 or to cause to withdi'aw, any one who shall disregard this caution. 



No children, apparently under ten years of age, will be admitted. 



No money to be given to the attendants or servants. 



— 2.— 



DIRECTIONS RESPECTING THE READING ROOM OF 

 THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The Reading Room of the Museum is open from ten till four, every day ; 

 except on Saturdays and Sundays, and for one week at Christmas, Easter, and 

 Whitsuntide, also on Thanksgiving and Fast days.* 



Persons desirous of admission are to send in their applications in writing 

 (specifying their christian and surnames, rank or profession, and places of 

 abode) to the principal Librarian, who will lay the same before the next general 

 Meeting, or Committee of the Trustees. But as it might be dangerous in so 

 populous a Metropolis as London, to admit perfect strangers, it is expected 

 that every person who applies should produce a recommendation from a trustee 

 or an officer of the house. Applications defective in this respect will not be 

 attended to. 



In all cases which require such dispatch as that time cannot be allowed for 

 making an application to the Trustees, the principal Librarian, or, in his 



absence, 



* King Charles I. martyrdom, Ash-Wednesday, Good Friday, Gunpowder Plot, and any occasional 

 Fast or Thanksgiving-day, ordered by His Majesty's proclamation. 



373. 



