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MEMORANDA. 
Address of Letters. — All letters on the general business of the Society 
should be addressed to “The Secretary, Royal Agricultural Society of 
England, 16 Bedford Square, London, W.C.” 
Telegrams. — Registered address for telegrams : “ Practice, London.” 
Telephone Number.— “ Gerrard,” 3675. 
Office Hours. — 10 to 4. On Saturdays, 10 to 2. 
Annual General Meeting, Wednesday, December 8, 1909. 
Monthly Council (for transaction of business), at noon : usually on the first 
Wednesday in every month, excepting January, September, and October : 
open only to Members of Council and Governors of the Society. 
Subscriptions. — 1. Annual. — The minimum subscription of a Governor is 5 1., 
and that of a Member 1Z., due in advance on the 1st of January of each 
year, and becoming in arrear if unpaid by the 1st of J une. 
2. For Life . — Governors may compound for their subscriptions for future 
years by paying at once the sum of 50/., and Members by paying 15Z. 
After payment of ten or more annual subscriptions, a Member may com- 
pound for future subscriptions, including that of the current year, by a 
single payment of 10Z.; and after payment of twenty or more annual 
subscriptions, by a single payment or 51. — or 25Z. in the case of Governors. 
No Governor or Member can be allowed to enter into a composition for 
life until all subscriptions due by him at the time shall have been paid. 
No Governor or Member whose subscription is in arrear is entitled to 
any of the privileges of the Society. 
All Members of the Society are, under the By-laws, bound to pay their 
annual subscriptions until they shall withdraw from it by notice in 
writing to the Secretary. 
Payments— Subscriptions may be paid to the Secretary, either at the office of 
the Society, 16 Bedford Square, London, W.C. ; or by means of crossed 
cheques in favour of the Secretary, or by orossed postal orders. When 
making remittances it should be stated by whom, and on whose account, 
they are sent. All Cheques and Postal Orders should be crossed “ London 
and Westminster Bank.” 
On 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 
Westminster Bank, 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 Bankers’ book may be at once identified, and the amount 
posted to the credit of the proper person. No coin can be remitted by 
post, unless the letter be registered. 
Journal. — The Volumes of the Society’s Journal are (when the subscription 
is not in arrear) forwarded by post to Members, or delivered from the 
Society’s Office to Members, or to the bearer of their written order. 
The back numbers of the Journal are kept constantly on sale by the 
publisher, Mr. John Murray, 50a Albemarle Street, W. 
Gloucester Meeting, June 22 to 26, 1909. Entries close: Implements, 
March 20 ; post entries, April 1. Live Stock, and Cider and Perry, May 20 ; 
Poultry and Produce (except cider and perry), May 31. 
New Members. — Every candidate for admission into the Society must be 
nominated bv a Governor or Member, and must duly fill up and sign an 
application for Membership on the appointed form. Forms of proposal 
may be obtained on application to the Secretary, who will inform new 
Members of their election by letter. 
