MEMORANDA. 



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

 trict designated hy 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 Friday, May 22, 18.57, at Twelve o'cloclc. 



Country Meeting at Salisbury, in the week commencing July 20, 1857. 



General Meeting in London, in December, 18.57. 



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. 



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

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

 Chemical Analysis given in Journal, vol. XVII., Appendix, pp. xiii, xlvi, and 

 may be obtained separately ou application to the Secretaiy.) 



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 IMembers' Veterinary Privileges given in Journal, 

 vol. XL, Appendix, pp. viji, ix; vol. XII., Appendix, p. iv; vol. XIII., 

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

 ou 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 (tlirough 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. Nomination: 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 be 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 majoi-ity 

 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-Governors 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. 



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

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

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



