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fioiial fl0uicultucal Societg of Cn^lanb. 
16, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, W.C. 
PRIVILEGES OF GOVERNORS AN0 MEMBERS. 
FREE ADMISSION TO SHOWYARD. 
The Society holds every year an Exhibition of Live Stock, Farm Produce, and Implements 
to which and to the Grand Stands at the Horse Ring, Dairy, and elsewhere. Members are 
entitled to free admission. 
REDUCED RATES FOR ENTRY OF LIVE STOCK AND IMPLEMENTS. 
No entry fee is charged to Members exhibiting Implements at the Shows. Firms 
and Companies may secure these privileges by the Membership of one or more of their 
partners. Entries of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry, Produce, &c., can be made by 
Members at reduced rates. 
FREE COPY OF SOCIETY’S JOURNAL. 
Every Member is eiuitlea to receive, without charge, a copy of the Journal of the Society, 
each Volume of which contains articles and communications by leading authorities on the 
most important agricultural questions of the day, together with oSicial reports by the Society's 
Scientific Advisers and on the various departments of the Annual Shows, and other interesting 
leatiires. 
Copies of the loiirnal may be obtained by Non-Members ot the Publisher, Mr. John Murray, 
50A, Albemarle Street, W., at the price of ten shillings per copy. 
LIBRARY AND READING ROOM. 
The Society has a large and well-stocked Library of standard books on agricultural 
subjects. A Reading Room is provided at which the principal agricultural newspapers and 
other periodicals can be consulted by Members during office hours i,io a.m. to 4 p.m. ; Saturdays, 
to a.m. to a p.m. I 
CHEMICAL PRIVILEGES. 
The Society makes annually a considerable grant from its general funds in order that Members 
may obtain at low rates analyses of feeding stuSs, artificial manures, soils, &c., by the Society’s 
Consulting Chemist (Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker). Members may also consult Dr. Voelcker 
either personally or by letter at a small fee. 
^ VETERINARY PRIVILEGES. 
Members can consult the Professors of the Royal Veterinary College at fixed rates of 
charpe, and they have the privilege of sending Cattle, Sheep and Pigs to the College 
Inhrmary on the same terms as subscribers to the College. 
BOTANICAL PRIVILEGES. 
Reports can be obtained by Members from the Society’s Consulting Botanist (Mr. W. 
Cakruthkhs, F.R.S.l, on the purity of seeds, and on diseases or weeds affecting farm 
crops, at a fee of one shilling in each case. 
ZOOLOGICAL PRIVILEGES. 
Information respecting any animal (quadruped, bird, insect, worm, &c.) which, in any stage of 
its life, aflects the farm or rural economy generally, with suggestions as to methods of prevention 
and remedy in respect to any such animal that may be injurious, can be obtained by Members 
from the Society's Zoologist, Mr. Cecil Wakburton, M.A., The Zoological Laboratory, 
Cambridge, at a fee of one shilling in each case. 
GENERAL MEETINGS OF MEMBERS. 
The Annual General Meeting of Governors and Members is held in London in the month of 
December, during the week of the Smithfield Club Cattle Show. A Meeting is also held in the 
Society’s Showyard in the Summer. 
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION OF MEMBERS. 
The Annual Subscription of a Member is payable in advance on the ist January of 
each year. Every candidate for admission into the Society must be proposed in writing 
by an existing Member. Forms of proposal may be obtained on application to the Secretary 
at 16, Bedford Square, London, ’W.C. 
SPECIAL PRIVILEGES OF GOVERNORS. 
In addition to the privileges of Members, as described above. Governors 
are entitled to an extra copy of each Volume of the Journal, to attend and speak at 
all meetings of the Council, and are alone eligible for election as President, Trustee, 
and Vice-President. The minimum Annual Subscription of a Governor is £5, witn 
a Life Composition of £50. 
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