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MEMORANDA. 
Addiik-i!1 of LeTteiH.- The Society's office being situated in tlio postal district designated by tlie 
letter 'W., Members, in tlielr correspondence with the Secretai'y, are requested to subjoin 
that letter to the usual address. 
Gkxkral Mektixg in London, Thursday, December 13, 1888, at noou. 
Gexbhal Meeting in London, Wednesday, Mtjy 22, 1889, at noon. 
Country Meeting in Windsor Great Park, weels commencing June 2i, 1889. 
MonthlV Council (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. 
Adjournments. — ^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 flrst Wednesday in November ; anil from the first Wednesday in December to the first 
Wednesday in February. 
Office Houhs.— 10 to i. On Saturdays 10 to 2. 
Diseases of Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs. — Members have the privilege of applying to the Vete- 
rinary 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 cxiix. in 
this Appendix.) 
Chemical Analysi.«i. — The privileges of Chemical Analysis enjoyed by Members of the Society 
will be found stated in this Appendix (page cxlvi.). 
Botanical and Entomological Privileges.— The Botanical and Entomological Privileges en- 
joyed by Members of the Society will be found stated in this Appendix (pages cli. and 
clii.). 
Subscriptions. — 1. Annual. — The subscription of a Governor is £5, and that of a Member £1, 
due in advance on the Ist of January of each year, and becoming in arrear if unpaid by 
the 1st of June. 
2. For Life. — Governors may compound for their subscriptions for future years by 
paying at once the sum of £50, and Members by paying £10. Governors and Members 
who have paid their annual subscription for 20 years or upwards, and whose payments 
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 £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. 
No Governor or Member in arrear of his subscription is entitled to any of the privileges 
of the Society. 
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 crossed cheques in favour of the Secretary, or by postal orders, to be obtained at any of 
the principal post-offices throughout the kingdom, and made jiayable .it the Vere Street 
Office, London, W. 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-ofllce on which such order has been obtained ; and when 
making remittances it should bo stated by whom, anil on whose account, they are sent. 
Cheques should be crossed " London and Westminster Bank." 
Oil application to the Secretary, forms may be obtained for authorising the regular 
payment, by the bankers of individual members, of each annual subscription as it falls 
due. Members are particularly invited to avail themselves of these Bankers' orders, in 
order to save trouble both to themselves and to the Society. When payment is made to the 
London and Westmiiuter Bank, St. James's Square Brancli, ai tlie 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 bankers' book may be at once identified, and the amount posted to the 
credit of the proper pe.-sjn. No coin 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. The 
Secretary will inform new Members of their election by letter. 
Membera may obtain on application to the Secretary copies of an abstract of the 
Charter and Bye-laws, of a Statement of the General Objects, (to., of the Society, of 
Chemical, Botanical, and Veterinary Privileges, and of other printed papers connected 
With special departments of the Society's business. 
