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MEMORANDA. 
Addeess of Letters. — The Society's ofiBce being situated In the postal district designated by the 
letter W. Members, in their correspondence with the Secretary, are requested to subjoin that 
letter to the usual address. 
Genebal Meeting in Loudon, December, 1885. 
Geneeal Meeting in London, May 22nd, 1886, at 12 o'clock. 
Meeiimq at Norwich, July, 1886. 
MoNTHLy ConuciL (for transaction of business), at 12 o'clock on the first Wednesday in every month, 
excepting January, September, and October : open only to Members of Council and Governors of 
the Society. 
Adjournments. — The Council a4)oum over Passion and Eaater 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 Houes.— 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 of these privileges will be found on page cxiv in this Appendix.) 
Chemical Amaltsis. — The privileges of Chemical Analysis enjoyed by Members of the Society will 
be found stated in this Appendix (page cxi). 
Botanical and Entomological Prtvileges. — The Botanical and Entomological Privileges enjoyed 
by Members of the Society will be found stated in this Appendix (page cxvi). 
ScESCRipriONS. — 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 arrear if unpaid by the 1st of 
June. 2. For Life. — Governors may compound for their subscription for future years by paying 
at once the sum of jt'50, and Members by paying £10. Governors and Members who have paid 
their annual subscription 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 £25 for a Governor, and jt'6 for a Member. 
Payments. — Subscriptions may be paid to the Secretary, in the most direct and satisfactory manner, 
cither at the Office of the Society, No. 12. Hanover Square, London, W., or by means of post- 
office orders, to be obtained at any of the principal post ottices throughout the kingdom, and made 
payable to him at the Vere Street Ofllce, 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-ofiice 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-ofiice 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. 
ODeqnes should be made payable as drafts on demand (not as bills only payable after sight or a 
certain number of days trfter date), and should be drawn on a London (not on a local conntry) 
banker. When payment is made to the London and Westminster Bank, St. James's Square 
Branch, as the bankers of the Society, it will be desirable thai 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 coin can be remitted by poet, 
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. 
*,* 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 Prlvil<[;os, and of other printed papers connected with special 
departments of the Society's business. 
