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GENERAL MEETING, 



12, Hanoveb Sqtjaee, Mat 22, 1867. 



EEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council have to report that since last December the Society 

 has lost by deaths and resignations 226 Governors and Members, 

 while 5 Governors and 173 Members have during the same 

 period been enrolled on its List, which is now constituted as 

 follows : — 



77 Life Governors, 



82 Annual Governors, 

 1388 Life Members, 

 3903 Annual Members, and 



15 Honorary Members, 



making a total of 5465. 



The Council have elected the Right Hon. Lord Tredegar and 

 the Right Hon. Lord Chesham to be Trustees in the room of the 

 late Sir John Shelley, Bart,, and the late Lord Feversham ; 

 the Right Hon. Earl Cathcart, a Vice-President, in the room 

 of the late Marquis of Exeter, K.G, ; His Grace the Duke of 

 Devonshire, the Right Hon. Sir John Trollope, Bart., M.P., ]Mr. 

 William Hassell, of Bubney, Whitchurch, Salop, and Mr. James 

 Webb, of Springhill, Fladbury, Pershore, Worcestershire, to be 

 Members of Council in the room of Lord Tredegar and Lord 

 " Chesham elected Trustees, and Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., and 

 Earl Cathcart, elected Vice-Presidents. 



The Bury St. Edmund's Meeting to be held in the week, 



commencing Monday the 15th of July, postponed from 1866 in 



consequence of the prevalence of the Cattle Plague, promises to 



' be unusually large in the display of implements. The entries 



