(ffinmal  iftleettngs  in  1851. 
The  General  May  Meeting,  in  London,  on  Thursday, 
May  22,  1851. 
The  Annual  Country  Meeting,  in  1851. 
The  General  December  Meeting,  in  London, on  the  Satur- 
day in  the  week  of  the  Meeting  of  the  Smithfield  Club  in 
December,  1851. 
Annual  Subscriptions. 
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,  between  the  hours  of  ten  and  four, 
or  by  means  of  Post-Office  orders,  to  be  obtained  on  application 
at  any  of  the  principal  Post-Offices  throughout  the  kingdom,  and 
made  payable  to  him  at  the  General  Post-Office,  London;  but 
any  cheque  on  a Banker’s,  or  other  house  of  business  in  London, 
will  be  equally  avadable,  if  made  payable  on  demand.  The 
subscriptions  are  due  in  advance  for  each  year  on  the  1st  of 
January,  and  are  in  arrear  if  unpaid  by  the  1st  of  June  ensuing. 
No  Member  is  entitled  to  the  Journal,  or  to  any  other  privilege 
of  the  Society,  whose  subscription  is  in  arrear. 
lEssaps  anti  Sports. 
All  Essays  and  Reports  competing  for  the  Prizes  of  the  Society 
in  this  department  for  next  year,  are  to  be  sent  to  the  Secretary, 
12,  Hanover  Square,  London,  on  or  before  the  1st  of  March, 
1851,  with  the  exception  of  those  competing  for  the  Prize  for  the 
Essay  on  Steam  and  other  Motive  Power,  which  need  not  be  sent 
in  until  on  or  before  March  1,  1852.  The  conditions  of  compe- 
tition were  printed  at  length  in  the  Appendix  to  the  last  Part  of 
the  Journal  (pages  xxxix. — -xli.),  and  may  be  had  separately  on 
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