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Boi)aI ^gn'cultuial ^oci'etp of englauti. 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Square, Thursday, December 9th, 1875. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society have to report 
that, during the year 1875, the number of Governors and 
Members has been increased by the election of 34 Governors 
and 672 Members, and diminished by the death of 9 Governors 
and 124 Members, the resignation of 115 Members, and the 
removal of 25 Members by order of the Council. 
The Society now consists of : — 
83 Life Governors, 
78 Annual Governors, 
2133 Life Members, 
4096 Annual Members, 
11 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 6401, and showing an increase of 419 Members 
since this time last year. 
The vacancy in the list of Trustees, caused by the death of 
Lord Tredegar, reported at the General Meeting in May, has 
been filled up by the election of the Eail of Lichfield, while the 
representation of Monmouthshire on the Council has been again 
secured by the election of Mr. Richard Stratton, of The Duffryn, 
near Newport. The Council have also filled up the vacancy 
caused by the regretted death of Lieut.-Col. Wilson, M.P., by 
the election of Mr. Robert Charles Ransome, of Orwell Works, 
Ipswich. 
The half-yearly statement of accounts to the 30th June, 1875, 
has been examined and approved by the Society's auditors and 
accountants, and has been published for the information of the 
Members in the last number of the 'Journal.' The funded 
capital has since then been reduced by the sum of 3000/. New 
Three per Cents., which have been sold out to meet the defi- 
ciency in the receipts at the Taunton Meeting. The funded 
