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l^osal Agricultural ^ocietg of <!?nslatttr. 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Squabe, Thuesday, December 9th, 1886. 
KEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council have to report that the list of Governors and 
Members have undergone the following changes during the 
present year: — 3 Governors and 476 Members have been 
elected ; 2 Members have qualified as Governors ; the deaths 
of 4 Governors and 159 Members have been reported, and 
2 Governors have been transferred to the list of Members ; 
210 Members have resigned : and 30 Members have been 
removed from the list by order of the Council. 
The Society now consists of : — 
72 Life Governors, 
64 Annual Governors, 
3430 Life Members, 
5697 Annual Members, 
20 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 9283, and showing an increase of 76 during 
the year 1886. 
The death of Sir Edward Kerrison has deprived the Council 
of the services of one of the oldest Ex-Presidents and Vice- 
Presidents of the Society, and the vacancy has been filled by the 
election of Mr. Wakefield, of Sedgwick, Kendal, Westmoreland. 
The vacancy on the Council caused by the death of Mr. R. C. 
Ransome, which was reported at the last Annual Meeting, has 
been filled by the election of Mr. J. A. Smith, of Rendlesham, 
