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Eojjal ^gncultuial ^onet]) of (©nglanti* 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Squake, Thursday, May 22nd, 1879. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society have the grati- 
fication of reporting that a large accession to the list of Members 
has been obtained since the last General Meeting in December, 
no fewer than 3 Governors and 677 Members having been elected 
in the interval. On the other hand, the death of 2 Governors 
and 47 Members has been reported, and the names of 96 Mem- 
bers, who resigned in the course of the year 1S78, have been 
removed from the list. The Society now consists of — 
81 Life Governors, 
72 Annual Governors, 
2453 Life Members, 
4700 Annual Members, 
26 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 7332, and showing an increase of 535 Members 
since the December Meeting. 
In the last Half-yearly Report the Council announced the 
resignation of Mr. Milward, of Thurgarton Priory, Notts, as a 
Trustee of the Society, and they much regret that they now have 
±o report the death of their valued colleague, who had been a 
most active Member of Council for more than 30 years. 
The vacancy in the list of Vice-Presidents, which existed in 
December, has been filled up by the election of Mr. John Bennet 
Lawes, F.R.S., of Rothamsted ; and the vacancies in the Council 
have been filled up by the election of Mr. Samuel Porter Foster, 
•of Kilhow, Carlisle, and Mr. Robert Neville, of Butleigh Court 
•Glastonbury. 
The accounts for the year 1878 have been examined, and 
