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THE INDIAN MUSEUM : 1814—1914. 
ture proposed by the Superintendent is extravagant or that 
expenditure is being incurred unduly in any direction, he shall 
bring the matter to the notice of the Trustees, who shall appoint 
a committee to consider it and to report at the next ordinar}^^ 
meeting. 
SECTION II. 
Duties of the Scientific Officers. 
8. The attention of scientific officers shall be given in the 
first place to determining, cataloguing, arranging and preserving 
the collections under their charge. They shall not, however, 
neglect descriptive work subservient to these duties and shall be 
encouraged to undertake morphological and biological research, 
so long as it does not interfere with their Museum work. 
9. Each Assistant Superintendent shall be placed in charge 
of a collection of certain specified groups of animals and shall be 
responsible for their preservation and arrangement and for the 
display of suitable representatives of them in the public galleries. 
The Superintendent shall decide for which group each Assistant 
Superintendent shall be responsible, retaining under his own 
immediate care those groups not assigned to one of the Assistant 
Superintendents. 
10. The scientific work of officers of the Section shall, when 
practicable, be issued either in India in such form as the Trustees 
may from time to time direct, or in the Fauna of British India 
and Ceylon ’ ’ published in London under the authority of the 
Secretary of State in Council. 
11. The Superintendent shall be editor of all publications 
issued by the department. 
12. The Superintendent shall be empowered to send any 
officer or servant of the Section to any part of India or Burma in 
furtherance of the work of the Museum, provided that the 
travelling expenses of the officer or servant can be met from the 
budget sanctioned by the Trustees for the year. 
SECTION III. 
Regarding the Lending of Specimens to Specialists not connected with 
the Museum. 
13. The Superintendent and the Assistant Superintendent 
are empowered to send specimens other than type specimens to 
specialists in India or abroad for examination, determination or 
description under the following conditions :— 
{i) No specimen or specimens shall ordinarily be despatched 
to a private address. 
{ii) All specimens sent out from the Museum shall be ac¬ 
companied by a printed form in which the number 
