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ISogal Agricultural ^otittv of (!?nglanti. 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Square, Thursday, December IOtii, 18t5. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
During the present year the changes which have occurred 
in the list of Members of the Society have been as follows : — 
1 Governor and 542 Members have been elected ; 1 Member 
has qualified as a Governor ; the deaths of 5 Governors and 
123 Members have been reported ; 178 Members have resigned ; 
and 54 Members have been removed from the list by order of 
the Council. 
The Society now consists of 
73 Life Governors, 
65 Annual Governors, 
3382 Life Members, 
5667 Annual Members, 
20 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 9207, and showing an increase of 183 during 
the year 1885. 
Since the Annual Meeting in May the Council have lost the 
services of some of their most valued colleagues, by the death 
of Sir Brandreth Gibbs and Sir Watkin Wynn, Bart., Vice- 
Presidents, and of Mr. T. Pain, a Member of the Council ; as 
