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Report to the General Meeting, 
The Council have also given instructions for the preparation of an 
Alphabetical List of Governors and Members as on March 26, 
accompanied by a List of the Presidents, Trustees, Vice-Presidents, 
and Members of Council during the last fifty years. A copy of this 
List will be forwarded on application, when ready, to any Member 
of the Society. 
5. The Council have elected the Pvt. Hon. Sir James Caird, 
K.C.B., as an Honorary Member of the Society, in recognition of his 
long and distinguished services to agriculture. 
6. These and other changes bring the total number of Governors 
and Members now on the Register to 10,984, divided as follows : — 
122 Life Governors, 
58 Annual Governors, 
3,846 Life Members, 
6,941 Annual Members, 
17 Honorary Members ; 
or a net increase of 1 1 8 Members during the year. 
7. In last year's Report reference was made to a contemplated 
change in the amount of the life composition for Members in lieu 
of the annual subscription, and it has since been decided that Members 
elected after the end of 1889 shall be entitled to compound for all 
future subscriptions by a single payment of 15Z., to be reduced to 
after the payment of ten, and to 51. after the payment of 
twenty, annual subscriptions of 11. The privileges of Members 
elected before the end of 1889 are not affected by this arrangement, 
but remain as before. 
8. The death of Mr. Herbert J. Little, on January 30 last, has 
deprived the Society of a distinguished Member, and the Council of 
a valued and esteemed colleague. For eight years Mr. Little's ser- 
vices as a Member of Council were actively in request, and his 
untimely decease is deeply regretted by his fellow-workers.'. To fill 
the vacancy on the Council caused by Mr. Little's death, Mr. Joseph 
P. Terry, of Berry Field, Aylesbury, has been elected. There are 
two other vacancies to be filled up by the General Meeting, one 
caused by the election of the Rt. Hon. Henry Chaplin, M.P., as a 
Vice-President, and the other caused by the retirement of a Member 
of Council under Bye-Law 23 (b). 
9. The accounts for the year 1889 have been examined and certi 
fied by the Auditors and Accountants of the Society, and are pub- 
lished in tho first number of the new Quarterly Journal. The 
final results of the working of the year show a credit balance of 
2,047£ 19s. 8d., and, after allowing for depreciation, the assets 
show a net increase of 1,28K 7*-. 0r^. The balance at the Bankers' 
on the 1st instant was 7,279^. 5s. 2d. 
