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Ixoyal ^[gncultural Society of Cnglanti* 



GENERAL MEETING, 



12, Hanover Fquare, Thursday, May 22, 1856. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Society consists at the present time of — 



85 Life Governors, 

 139 Annual Governors, 

 839 Life Members, 

 3896 Ainmal Members, and 

 20 Honorary Members, 



forming a total of 4979 Members, or 97 more names on the list 

 than at the previous anniversary. Mr. Evelyn Denison, M.P., has 

 been appointed a Trustee of the Society, in the place of the late 

 Mr. Neeld, M.P. 



His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French having been 

 graciously pleased to permit his name to be placed on the list of 

 Honorary Members of the Society, in compliance with a request 

 made on the part of the Council, His Imperial Majesty has been 

 unanimously elected accordingly, in grateful recognition of the 

 deep interest which His Imperial Majesty has so effectively taken 

 in the promotion of international agriculture. 



The Council have also elected M. Leoncc de Lavergne an 

 Honorary Member of the Society, in testimony of the higli esti- 

 nialion in which they liold his remarkable work on the Rural 

 lu'onomy of this country. 



The Finances of the Society have on no former occasion i)een 

 in so favourable a condition. The funded property consists of 

 92G4/. in the New Three per Cent. Stock, and the current casli- 

 balance in the hands of the bankers is 3G57/, 



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