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MEMORANDA. 
General Meeting in London, on Tuesday, May 22, 1855, at Twelve o'clock. 
Country Meeting at Carlisle in 1855. 
General Meeting in London, on the Saturday of the Smithfield Club-Show week, 
at Eleven o'clock, a.m. 
Monthly Council (for transaction of business), at 12 o'clock on the first Wed- 
nesda)' 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. 
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 Wednesday in the week of the December General 
Meeting to the first Wednesday in February. 
Guano analysed for Members at a reduced rate by Professor Way, at 23, Holies 
Street, Cavendish Square, London. — (Statement of Members' Privileges of 
Cliemical Analysis given in Journal, vol. XIIL, Appendix, p. xxxiv, and 
may be obtained separately on ai)plication to the Secretary,) 
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 Memiiers' Veterinary Privileges given in Journal, 
vol. XI., Appendix, pp. viii, ix; vol. XII., 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 will be 
given. 
New Members. — 1. Abomination: 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. J.'/cctioii : 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-Governors or Life-Members, and are required to 
make in one payment on election a composition for annual subscriptions. 
Faksiing 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. 
Meml)ers may obtain on application to the Secretary copies of an Al)^tract of tlie Charter 
and Bye-Laws, of a .Statement of tiie General 01\jects, &c., of the Society, and of otlior 
printed papers connected with special departments of the Society's business. 
