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MEMORANDA. 
Address of Letters. — The Society's olBce being situated in the postal district designated by tlio 
letter VV. members in their correspondence with the Secretary, are requested to subjoin that 
letter to the usual address. 
Geneiial Meeting in London, in December, 1871. 
General Meeting In London, May 22nd, 1872, at 12 o'clock. 
Meeting at Cardiff, July 15th and four following days, 1872. 
Monthly Coukoii, (for transaction of business), at 12 o'clock on the first Wednesday in every month, 
excepting January, September, and Octuber: open only to Members of Council and Governors ot 
the Society. 
Adjournjiknts. — The Council adjourn over Passion and Easter weeks, when those weeks do not 
include the first Wednesday of the month; from tlie first Wednesday in August to the first 
Wednesday in November; and from the first Wednesday in December to the first Wednesday In 
February. 
Office Hours. — 10 to 4. From the Council Meeting in August until the Council Meeting in April, 
on Saturdays, 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 iinimals 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 the Appendix.) 
Chejiical Analysis. — The privileges of Chemical Analysis enjoyed by Members of the Society will 
be found stated in the Appendix to the present volume. 
Botanical PRrvitEGEs. — The Botanical Privileges enjoyed by Members of the Society will be found 
stated in the Appendix to the present volume. 
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 year, and becoming in arrnar if unpaid by the Islof 
June. 2. For Life. — Governors may compound for their subf<;ription for future years by paying 
at once the sum of ±'50, and Meml)ers by paying £10. Members who have paid their animal 
sub.scription 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 £5. 
Payments. — Subscriptions may be paid to the Secretary, in the most direct and satisfactory manner, 
eitlier at the ofBce of the Society, No. 12, Hanover Square, London, W., or by means of post- 
olfice orders, to be obtained at any of the principal post offices througliout the kingdom, 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 ma<le to the London 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 coiu 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. 
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 : — One Halfpenny for every two oimces or fractional part of that weight. 
%* 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 the Society's business. 
