MEMOKANDA 
Address of Letters. — All letters on the general business of the Society should be 
addressed to the Secretary, at 12 Hanover Square, Londo.n, W. 
Telegrams. — The Society’s registered address for telegrams is “ Practice, London.” 
Beplies hy telegraph cannot he sent unless paid for in advance, and cannot 
he guaranteed in any case. 
Telephone Number 3675. 
Office Hours. — 10 to 4. On Saturdays, 10 to 2. 
General Meeting in London, Thursday, December 8, 1892, at noon, in the large 
Hall of the Koyal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 20 Hanover Square, W. 
Country Meeting at CHESTER, Mond.vy, June 19, to Frid.vy, June 23, 1893 
(both inclusive). 
Monthly 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 to 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 Wednes- 
day in August to the first Wednesday in November ; and from the first Wednesday 
in Decemher to the first Wednesday in February. 
Subscriptions —1. Annual. — The subscription of a Governor is j£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 June. 
2. For Life. — Governors may compound for their subscriptions for future 
years by paying on election, or at any time thereafter, the sum of £50, and 
Members by paying £15. Members elected before 1890 may compound at any 
time on payment of £10 in one sum ; and Members elected in or subsequently 
to 1890 may compound for the same amount after the payment of ten annual 
subscriptions. Governors and Members who have paid their annual subscriijlion 
for 20 years or upwards, and whose payments are not in arrear, may comxmund 
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. 
All Members belonging to the Society are, under the Bye-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, No. 12 Hanover Square, London, W., or by means of crossed cheques 
or crossed postal orders, made payable to “ The Royal Agricultural Society of 
England.” 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, St. James’s Square Branch.” 
On application to the Secretary, forms may be obtained for authorising the 
regular payment, by the bankers of individual members, of each annual sub- 
scription 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 w'ill bo 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 pei-son. 
No coin can be remitted by post unless the letter be registered. 
Journal. — The Parts 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 Murr.vy, 50a Albemarle Street, W. 
New Members. — Ev'ery candidate for admission into the Society must be nomi- 
nated by a Governor or Member, and must duly fill up and sign an application 
for Membership on the ajipointed form. Forms of Pro 2 DOsal may be obtained 
on aiiplication to the Secretary, or the form on next page may be utilised for this 
purpose. The Secretary will infonn new Members of their election by letter. 
