MEMORANDA. 



Generai, Meeting in London, on the Saturday of the Smitlifidd Club-Show 

 week at Eleven o'clock, a.m. 



General Meeting iu London, on Friday, May 22, 1857, at Twelve o'clock. 



Country Meeting (at Salisbury probably) in 1857. 



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 

 iu February. 



Guano analysed for Members at a reduced rate by Professor Wat, at 15, Welbeck 



Street, Cavendish Square, London. — (Statement of Members' Privileges of 

 Chemical Analysis given in Journal, vol. XVTL, Appendix, p. xiii, and may 

 be obtained separately on application to the Secretary. )j 



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. XL, Appendix, pp. viii, ix; vol. XIL, 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.— 1. Xomiaation : Every candidate for admission into the Society 

 must be proposed by a Member ; the proposer to specify in writing the name, 

 rank, usual place of residence, and post-town, of the candidate, either at "a 

 Council, or by letter to the Secretary. Every such proposal will he read at 

 the Council at which such proposal is made ; or, in the case of the Candidate 

 being proposed by a letter to the Secretary, at the first meeting of the Council 

 next after such letter shall have been received.— 2. Election : At the next 

 Monthly Meeting of the Council the election will take place, when the 

 decision of the Council will be taken by a show of hands; the majority 

 of the Members present to elect or reject. The Secretary will inform 

 Members of their election by a letter, in such form as the Council may 

 from time to time direct'. — Candidates residing out of the United Kingdom 

 can only be elected as Life-G&vernors or Life-Members of the Society, and 

 are in each case required to make in one payment on election a composition 

 in lieu of annual subscriptions. 



Farming Accounts recommended by a Committee of the Society sold to Members 

 at a reduced rate, by Messrs. Hallifax, the Stationers to the Society, 315 

 Oxford Street, London. 



',* Memliersmay obtain on application to the Secretary copies of an Abstract of tlie Charter 

 anil Bye-Laws, of a Statement of the General Objects, Sec, of the Society, and of other 

 printed papers connected with special departments of the .*«ociety's liusineEs. 



