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eSciuval iHlfcti'ngs of 1848—9. 
The General December Meeting, in London, on Saturday, 
December 9, 1848. 
The General May Meeting, in London, on Tuesday, May 
22, 1849. 
The Annual Country Meeting, at Norwich, in 1849. 
Election of MEJinERS. — Candidates for admission into tlie Society must be pro- 
posed by a Member, tbe 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 shall be read at tlie Council at which such proposal 
is made ; or, in case of tlie Candidate being proposed by a letter to the Secretary, at 
the first meeting of tlie C;iuncil next after sucli letter shall have been received. At the 
next Meeting of the Council tlie election shall take place, when the decision of the 
Council sliall be taken by a show of hands; the majority of the Members present to 
elect or reject. The Secretary shall inform Members of their election by a letter, in 
sucli form as the Council may from time to time direct. All INIembers belong to the 
Society, and are bound to pay their annual subscriptions. Members not in ariear of 
their subscription may witlidraw from the Society by a notice in writing to the 
Secretary. Governors to pay an annual subscription of 5/., and Members of 1/. ; all 
subscriptions being due on the 1st of January in each year; but wlien the election 
takes place in November or December, tlie subscription paid in tiiose months will be 
considered as tlie subscription of the following year. Governors may compound for 
their lives by jiaying 50/. ; iNIembers, by paying 10/. 
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, between 
the liours of fen and four, or by means of Post-office orders, to be obtained on appli- 
cation at any of the jirincipal Post-offices througliout the kingdom, and made payable 
to him at the General Post-oflice, London; but any Clieque on a Loiwlon Banker, or 
other House of Busines': in London, will be equally available, if made payable on 
demand. The subscriptions are due in advance, for eacli year, on the 1st of January ; 
and are in arrear if unjiaid by the 1st of June ensuing. No Member is entitled to 
the Journal, or to any otiier privileges of the Society, whose subscription is in arrear. 
Volumes of the Journal. — T!ie first Volume of the Journal consists o( fuur parts, 
the second and tliird Volumes of //ire« parts each (the second and third parts of the 
third Volume being comprised in a double number), and the fourth of la o parts. 1 he 
Journal is now published half-yearly, namely, the first half-volume for each vear 
about tlie beginning of July, and the second about the end of December or beginning 
of January, and is transmitted by post as published to each Member of tlie Society 
whose subscription is not in airear at the date of publication. 
Cottage Economy. — Jlr. Main's article on Cottage G.ardening, and Mr. Burke's 
compilation on Cottage Economy and Cookery, have each been reprinted from the 
Journal in a sejiarate form, for cheap distribution. Either or both of these tracts may 
he obtained by members at the rate of \s. per dozen copies, on their enclosing to the 
Secretary a Post-office money-order for the number required; at the same time stating 
the most eligible mode of conveyance by which the copies can be transmitted to their 
address. They are also sold to the juiblic, at Id. each, by the Society's Publisher, 
Mr. Murray, 50, Albemarle Street, London. 
