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MEMORANDA. 
.Dusras OF Letters. — The Society's oflBce being situated in the postal district designated by the 
letter VV. members, in their correspondence with the Secretary, are requested to subjoin that 
letter to the usual address. 
s'EBAL Meetikg in London, in December, 1812. 
LSERAL Meetihg in London, May 22, 1873, at 12 o'clock. 
Iketihg at Cardiff, July 15th and four following days, 1872. 
loxTHLT CoTOOiL (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. 
axjocBNTiENTS. — The Cotmcil 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 firdt Wednesday in 
I February. 
ttice Hours.— 10 to 4. On Saturdays, from the Conncil Meeting in August tmtil the Council 
Meeting in April, 10 to 2. 
1SEASES of Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs. — Members have the privUege 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.— (A statement of these privileges will be 
found in the Appendix.) 
HimcAX Analysis. — The privileges of Chemical Analysis eiyoyed by Members of the Society will 
be found stated in the Appendix to the present volume. 
ioiAsiCAL Petvueges. — The Botanical Privileges eiyoyed by Members of the Society will be found 
stated in the Appendix to the present volume. 
rssCRiPTiONS. — 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 
Jime. 2. For Life.— Governors may compound for their subscription for future years by paying 
at once the sum of ±'50, and Members by paying £10. 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 £5. 
'AnreUTS. — 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 post- 
office orders, to be obtained at any of the principal post offices throughout the kingdom, and made 
payable to him at the Vere Street Office, 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-office 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-office 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. 
Cheques should be made payable as drafts on demand (not as bills only payable alter sight or a 
certain number of days after date), and should be drawn on a London (not on a local country) 
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 that the Secretary should be advised 
by letter of such payment, in order that the entry In the banker's book njay be at once iden- 
tUied, and the amount posted to the credit of the proper party. No coin can be remitted by post, 
tmless the letter be registered. 
<EW Members. — Every candidate for admission Into the Society must be proposed by a Member; 
the proposer to specify in writing the fuU 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. 
'iCKEis BT Post. — Packets not exceeding two feet in length, width, or depth, consisting of written or 
printed matter (but not containing letters sealed or open), if sent without envelopes, or enclosed 
in envelopes open at each end, may be forwarded by the inland post, if stamped, at the following 
rates : — One Halfpenny for every two otmces or fractional part of that weight. 
*,* 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, Sc., of the Society, of Chemical, 
Botanical, and Veterinary Privileges, and of other printed papers connected with special 
departmeuts of the Society's businCkf. 
