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lAoyal Agricultural ^otitt^ of a^nslautr^ 



GENERAL MEETING. 



12, Hanover Square, Thursday, December 11th, 1873. 



REPORT OF THE COUXCIL. 



DuEING the year 1873 the list of Governors and Members of the 

 Society has been increased by the election of 1 Governor and 

 351 Members, and diminished by the death of 5 Governors and 

 128 Members, the resignation of 168 Members, and the removal 

 of 15 Members by order of the Council. In addition to these 

 changes, the Council have to record their sense of the loss which 

 not only this Society, but the whole world of science, has suffered 

 by the death of one of its Honorary Members, Baron Liebig, 

 whose chemical discoveries, especially in relation to the pro- 

 duction and utilization of food, have been of the utmost import- 

 ance to agriculture. 



The Society now consists of 



77 Life Governors, 



59 Annual Governors, 

 1894 Life Meinbers, 

 3949 Annual Members, 



12 Honorary Members, 



making a total of 5991, and showing an increase of 46 Members 

 during the year 1873. 



The Duke of Bedford has been elected a Member of Council 

 in the room of Lord Kesteven, whose election as a Trustee was 

 reported to the Annual ^Meeting last May ; and Mr. T. Horlej-, 

 junior, of the Fosse, Leamington, has been elected to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Sanday, the state of 

 whose health no longer allows him to give the Council the 

 advantage of his services. 



The half-yearly statement of accounts to the 30th of June, 



