2 REGULATIONS OF ADMISSION TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



absence, the senior under Librarian in residence, is empowered to grant a 

 temporary leave, till the next general Meeting or Committee. 



Permission will in general be granted for six months ; and at the expiration 

 of this term fresh application is to be made for a renewal. 



Although the Librarians be strictly enjoined to use all possible dispatch in 

 supplying the readers with the printed books or manuscripts they may apply for, 

 yet as in so extensive a library it may not be possible to find every article imme- 

 diately, it is recommended to the readers to allow a reasonable time for the 

 search, especially as to the printed books. 



No reader (except in particular cases, at the discretion of the principal 

 Librarian) will be entitled to more than two volumes at a time ; but they may 

 be exchanged as often as he may require. 



Readers wiU be allowed to take one or more extracts from any printed book 

 or manuscript ; but no whole, or greater part, of a manuscript is to be trans- 

 cribed, without a particular leave from the Trustees. The transcribers are 

 not to lay the paper, on which they write, on any part of the book or manu- 

 script they are using; nor are any tracings allowed without particular permission 

 of the Trustees. 



No person is, on any pretence whatever, to write on any part of a printed 

 book or manuscript belonging to the Museum ; but if any one should observe a 

 defect in such book or manuscript, he is requested to signify the same to the 

 officer in waiting, who will make proper use pf the information. 



It may be sufficient merely to suggest, that silence is absolutely requisite in a 

 place dedicated to the purposes of study. 



— 3.— 



REGULATIONS RESPECTING THE ADMISSION OF STUDENTS INTO THE 

 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 



Students desirous to be admitted, are to send their applications in writing, 

 to the principal Librarian, or, in his absence, to the senior under Librarian 

 in residence. These officers will lay the same before the next general Meet- 

 ing, or Committee of Trustees, who will, if they see no objection, grant ad- 

 mission for a term not exceeding half a year ; but, in case of applications 

 being made, when an early meeting of the Trustees is not at hand, the prin- 

 cipal Librarian, or, in his absence, the said under Librarian is empowered to 

 grant a temporary leave till the next general Meeting or Committee. 



Students who apply for admission to the Gallery, are to specify their descrip- 

 tions and places of abode ; and it is expected that every one who applies, do 

 produce a recommendation from a Trustee or Officer of the Museum, or from 

 one of the Professors in the Royal Academy. 



British Museum, 

 28 May 1818. 



