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MEMORANDA. 



Address of Letters. — The Society's office being situated in the new postal dis- 

 trict designated by the letter VV' members, in their correspondence with the 

 Secretary, are requested to subjoin that letter to the usual address. 



General Meeting in London, on Saturday, May 22, 1858, at Twelve o'clock. 



Country Meeting at Chester, in the week commencing Monday, July 19, 1858, 



General Meeting in London, in December, 1858. 



Monthly Council (for transaction of business), at 12 o'clock on the first Wed- 

 nesday in every month, excepting January, September, and October: open 

 only to Members of Council and Governors of the Society. 



Weekly Council (for practical communications), at 12 o'clock on all Wednesdays 

 in February, March, April, May, June, and July, excepting the first Wednesday 

 in each of those months, and during adjournment: open to all Members of the 

 Society, who are particularly invited by the Council to avail themselves of 

 this privilege. 



Adjournments. — The Council adjourn over Easter week, and occasionally over 

 Passion and Whitsun weeks; from the first Wednesday in August to that in 

 November; and from the first Wednesday in December to the first Wednesday 

 in February. 



Diseases of Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs.— Members have the privilege of applying to 

 the Veterinary Committee of the Society ; and of sending animals to the Royal 

 Veterinary College, on the same terms as if they were subscribers to the 

 College.— (Statement of Members' Veterinary Privileges given in Journal, 

 vol. XI., Appendix, pp. viii, ix; vol. XII., Appendix, p. iv ; vol. XIII., 

 Appendix, p. xxxiv ; vol. XIV., Appendix, p. v; and may be had separately 

 on application to the Secretary.) 

 Local Cheques : requested not to be forwarded for payment in London ; but 

 London Cheques, or Post-office Orders (payable to "James Hudson"), to be 

 sent in lieu of them. Members may conveniently transmit their Subscriptions 

 to the Society, by requesting their Country Bankers to pay (through their 

 London Agents) the amount at the Society's Office (No. 12, Hanover Square, 

 London), between the hours of ten and four, when official receipts, signed 

 by the Secretary, will be given for such payments. 

 New Members. — Every candidate for admission into the Society must be pro- 

 posed by a Member ; the proposer to specify in writing the full name, usual 

 place of residence, and post-town, of the candidate, either at a Council meet- 

 ing, or by letter addressed to the Secretary. 

 Packets by Post. — Packets not exceeding two feet in length, width, or depth, 

 consisting of written or printed matter (but not containing letters sealed or 

 open), if sent without envelopes, or enclosed in envelopes open at each end, 

 may be forwarded by the inland post, if stamped, at the following rates : — 

 For a packet not exceeding 4 ounces for quarter of a pound) ... 1 penny. 

 „ „ 8 „ (or half a pound) .... 2 pence. 



„ „ 16 „ (or one pound) 4 ,. 



,, „ 24 „ (or one pound and a half) , . 6 „ 



" „ „ 32 „ (or two pounds) 8 „ 



[And so on in the proportion of 8 ounces for each additional 2d.'] 



*»* Members may obtain on application to the Secretary copies of an Abstract of the Charter 

 and Bve-Laws, of a Statement of the General Objects, &c., of the Society, and of other 

 printed papers connected with special departments of the Society's business. 



