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J^ogal agricultural Society of Snglanft 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 12, Hanover Square, Saturday, December 11, 1852. 



EEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council have to lay before the Members, at the present 

 General Meeting- of the Society, the following half-yearly Report 

 of their proceeding's. 



Since the last General Meeting in May, 45 Members have 

 been lost to the Society by death, and the names of 82 others 

 have been removed from the list on retirement or otherwise ; 

 while 80 new Members have been elected during the same 

 period. The Society accordingly now consists of — 



91 Life Governors, 

 149 Annual Governors, 

 720 Life Members, 

 ■ 3955 Annual Members, and 



1 9 Honorary Members ; 



making a total of 4934. In the list of deceased Members on 

 this occasion there occurs the illustrious name of the Duke of 

 Wellington, one of the earliest Life-Governors and Vice-Pre- 

 sidents of the Society ; who, though not himself a practical 

 farmer, took a lively interest in everything tending to develop 

 the resources of his country. In filling up the vacancy thus 

 occasioned in the list of the Vice-Presidents, the Council have 

 elected Sir John V. B. Johnstone, Bart., M.P., to that office ; a 

 gentleman who from the earliest period of the Society has given 

 his unremitting attention to its affairs. They have also placed 

 among the general Members of Council, in the vacancy thus 



