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GENERAL MEETING : 

 12, Hanover Square, Saturday, December 10, 1853. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council have to report to the Members at their present 

 General Meeting that during the past half-year the Society has 

 lost, by deaths or resignations, 43 of its Members, while 156 

 new Members have, during the same period, been enrolled on 

 its list, which is now constituted as follows : — 



88 Life Governors, 

 148 Annual Governors, 

 760 Life Members, 

 4073 Annual Members, and 



20 Honorary Members. 



The Council have elected Lord Asliburton to supply the 

 vacancy in the number of the Vice-Presidents occasioned by 

 the deeply-lamented death of the Earl Ducie ; and the Hon. A. 

 Leslie Melville of Lincolnshire, Mr. Barthropp of Suffolk, and 

 Lord Bridport, as General Members of Council, in the place 

 respectively of Lord Asliburton, Professor Sewell, and Mr. 

 Bennett. 



A new list of the Governors and Members of the Society 

 having been prepared for insertion in the ensuing number of the 

 Journal, the Council submit to the members on this occasion the 

 following schedule, showing their distribution throughout the 

 kingdom : — 



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