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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0746.00080.] Given a principal bundle \(P \to M\) with structure \(G\) then its tangent bundle \(TP \to TM\) is a principal bundle with group \(TG\), and \textit{S. Kobayashi} has proved [Ann. Mat. Pura App. 43, 119-185 (1957; Zbl 0124.376)] that a connection \(\Gamma\) on \(P\) induces in a canonical way a connection \(T\Gamma\) on \(TP\) [see also \textit{L. A. Cordero}, \textit{C. T. J. Dodson} and the reviewer, Differential geometry of frame bundles (1989; Zbl 0673.53001)]. Actually, this construction is one gauge-natural operator of first order \(Q \to (QP \to TB)\) where \(QP\) is the connection bundle of \(P\) [see \textit{P. L. García}, Rend. Semin. Mat. Univ. Padova 47, 227-242 (1972; Zbl 0251.53024)], \(T\) is the tangent functor, and \(B\) is the base functor. In other words, \(\Gamma \to T\Gamma\) is one gauge-natural operator from connections on \(P \to M\) into connections on \(TP \to TM\). In this paper the author obtains all first order gauge- natural operators \(Q \to (QP \to TB)\) where \(G\) is the general linear group.