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MEMOEANDA. 



Address of Letters. — The Society's office being situated in the postal district 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, May 22, 1874, at 12 o'clocli. 



Meeting at Bedford, July 13th, 1874, and four following days. 



General Meeting in London, December, 1S74. 



JMoNTHLY CoDNniL (for transaction of business), at 12 o'clock on the first Wednesday in every month, 

 excepting January, September, and October: open only to Members of Council and Governors of 

 the Society. 



Adjodbnments. — The Council adjourn over Passion and Easter weelcs, when those weelcs do not 

 include the first Wednesday of the month ; from the first Wednesday in August to the first 

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

 February. 



Office HonRS.— 10 to 4. On Saturdays, from the Council Meeting in August until the Council 

 Meeting in April, 10 to 2. 



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 Koyal Veterinary College on the 

 same terms as if they were subscribers to the College. — (A statement of these privileges will be 

 found in this Appendix.) 



Chejiical Analysis. — The privileges of Chemical Analysis enjoyed by Members of the Society will 

 be found stated in this Appendix. 



Botanical Pru-ileges. — The Botanical Privileges enjoyed by Members of the Society will be found 

 stated in this Appendix. 



Subscriptions. — 1. Annual. — The subscription of a Governor is £5, and that of a Member £1, due in 

 advance on the 1st of January of each yeir, and becoming in arrear if unpaid by the 1st of 

 June. 2. For Life. — Governors may componnd for their subscription for future years by paying 

 at once the sum of ±'50, and Members by paying .£10. Governors and Members who have paid 

 their annual subscription for 20 years or upwards, and whose subscriptions are not in arrear, 

 may compound for future annual subscriptions, that of the current year inclusive, by a single 

 payment of £25 for a Governor, and ±'5 for a Member. 



Payments. — Subscriptions may be paid to the Secretary, in the most direct and satisfactory manner, 

 either at the Office of the Society, No. 12, Hanover Square, London, AV., or by means of post- 

 oflBce orders, to be obtained at any of the principal post-ofBces throughout the kiogdom, and made 

 payable to him at the Vere Street Office, London, W. ; but any cheque on a banker's or any 

 other house of business in London will be equally available, if made payable on demand. In 

 obtaining post-office orders care should be taken to give the postmaster the correct initials 

 and surname of the Secretary of the Society (H. M. Jenkins), otherwise the payment 

 will be refused to him at the post-office on which such order has been obtained; and when 

 remitting the money-orders it should be stated by whom, and on whose account, they are sent. 

 Cheques should be made payable as drafts on demand (not as bills only payable after sight or a 

 certain number of days after date), and should be drawn on a London (not on a local country) 

 banker. When payment is made to the Ix'ndon and Westminster Bank. St. James's Square 

 Branch, as the bankers of the Society, it will be desirable that the Secretary should be advised 

 by letter of such payment, in order that the entry in the- banker's book may be at once iden- 

 tified, and the amount posted to the credit of the proper party. No coin can be remitted by post, 

 unless the letter be registered. 



New Members. — Every candidate for admission into the Society must be proposed 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 meeting, or by letter addressed to the Secretary. Forms of Proposal 

 may be obtained on application to the Secretary. 



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

 and Bye-laws, of a Statement of the General Objects, &c., of the Society, of Chemical, 

 Botanical, and Veterinary Privileges, and of other printed papers connected with special 

 departments of tbe Society's business. 



