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Mogal flgritultttral Socutj) of ©nglantr* 



GENERAL MEETING, 

 12, Hanover Square, Thursday, May 22, 1851. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 

 The Council have to report that since their last general meet- 

 ing in December, the Society has been deprived by death of 

 65 of its members, including Sir Francis Lawley, Bart., one of 

 the founders and trustees of the Society, and the Hon. Captain 

 Pelham, a member of the Council, and one of the stewards of 

 implements at the Country Meetings of the Society; 216 names 

 have also been removed from the list, while 163 new members 

 have been elected during the half-year : the Society accordingly 

 now consists of — 



91 Life Governors, 

 162 Annual Governors, 

 674 Life Members, 

 4175 Annual Members, and 



19 Honorary Members ; 



making a total of 5121 general members on the list of the Society 

 at the present time. 



The Council have transferred the name of Colonel Challoner 

 from the general members of Council to the class of Trustees of 

 the Society, to fill the vacancy in that list occasioned by the 

 decease of Sir Francis Lawley ; and they have elected Mr. 

 Pendarves, M.P., into the Council, to complete the required 

 number of their members. 



The chemical investigations are proceeding in a satisfactory 

 manner, and the subject of the absorptive properties of clay soils 



