Admission into the Museum* 



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the Reading Room are to specify their de- CHAP. III. 

 scriptions and places of abode ; and as it 

 might be dangerous, in so populous a metro- 

 polis as London, to admit perfect strangers, 

 it is expected that every one who applies, if 

 not known to any Trustee or Officer, should 

 produce a recommendation from some person 

 of known and approved character. 



12. Every reader may, at the expiration 

 of his term, apply for a prolongation of the 

 same, without a fresh recommendation. 



13. Transcribers are not to lay the paper Regulations 



. /-lii and Cautions. 



on which they write on any part or the book 

 or manuscript they are using. 



14. No person is, on any pretence what- 

 ever, 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. 



15. Persons engaged in works of learning, 

 or in the prosecution of any useful design, 

 and having occasion to examine any part of 

 the collection with more attention than can 

 be done in the ordinary way of viewing the 

 Museum ; or using the Reading Room, or 

 having occasion to make a drawing of any 



