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MEMOKANDA. 
Aw)RE3S OP Letters.— The Scdety'a office being 8ltnated in the postal district designated by the 
■' letter W. Members, In their correspondeoce with the Secretary, are requested to subjoin that 
letter to the osnal address. 
Oenesax Mketisg in London, Thursday, December 8th, 1887, at noon, 
Qexebal Mebtino in London, Jlonday, May 22nd, 1888, at noon. 
Meeikg at Nottingham, July, 18S8. 
Monthly Oouncii. (for transaction of business), at noon on the first Wednesday in every month, 
excepting January, September, and October : open only to Members of Council and Governors of 
the Society. 
Adjoiirxmk>ts. — The Council adjourn over Passion and Easter weeks, when those weeks 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 Hocas.— 10 to 4, 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 animals to the Royal Veterinary College, Camden 
Town, N.W. — (A statement ol these privileges will be found on page cssivii in this Appendix.) 
Chekical Amaltsis.— The privileges of Chemical Analysis enjoyed by Members ot the Society wUl 
be found stated In this Appendix (page cxxxiv). 
BoTANicAl ANT) EsTOMOLOGiCAi, Prtvileges. — The Botanical and Entomological Privileges eifjoyed 
by Members of the Society will be found stated in this Appendix (pages cxxxix and cxl). 
SuBSCEUTiOKs.— 1. Annual. — The suljscrlption 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 arrear if unpaid by the 1st of 
June. 2. For Lt/e.— Governors may compotmd for their subscription for futnre years by paying 
at once the sum of £bO, and Members by paying i;"10. Governors and Members who have paid 
their annual subscription for 20 years or upwards, and whose snbscription' are not in arrear, 
may compound for future annual snbscriptions. that of the current year inclusive, by a single 
payment of £2.1 for a fJovprnor. and ±5 for a Member No Governor or Member can be allowed 
to enter into composition for life until all subscriptions due by him at the time shall have been 
paid. Governors or Members not resident in the United Kingdom, will be required on elec- 
tion to pay the life composition. No Governor or Member in arrear of his subscription is 
entitled to any of the privileges of the Society. 
PATKEitTS. — 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, W., or by means of postal 
orders, to l)e obtained at any of the principal posi otlices tliroughout the kingdom, and made 
payable to him at the Vere Street Office, London, W.; but any cheque on a banker or any 
other house of business in London will be equally available, if made payable on demand. In 
obtaining postal orders care should be taken to give the postmaster the correct name of the 
Secretary of the Society (Ernest Clarke), otherwise the payment may be refused to him at the 
post-office on which sncb order has been obtained; and when making remittances it fhould 
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 day- after 
date), and should be cro>sed " London and Westminstfr Bank." On application to the Secre- 
tary. form= may be obtained fcr anthorizing the rckular payment, by the bai^kers of individual 
members, of each annual subscription as it falls due. When payment is made to the London 
and Westminster Bank, St. James's Square Branch, as the bankers of the Society, it will b« 
desirable that the Secretary should be advised by letter of such payment, in order that the 
entry in the banker's Ixwk may be at once identified, and the amount posted to the credit of the 
proper person. No com 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 Cotincil meeting, or by letter addressed to the Secretary. Forms of Propof al 
may be obtained on application to the Secretary. The Secretary will inform new Members of 
their election by letter. t 
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. 
