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^oi)al agn'cultural ^ocietj) of a^uglanti. 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hakovee Square, Thursday, Decembek 13th, 1877. 
KEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council have to report that during the year 1877 the 
number of Governors and Members has been increased by the 
election of 1 Governor and 412 Members, and diminished by 
the death of 4 Governors and 107 Members, the resignation of 
127 Members, and the removal of 50 Members by order of the 
Council. 
The Society now consists of : — 
81 Life Governors, 
74 Annual Governors, 
2280 Life Members, 
4182 Annual Members, 
17 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 6634, and showing ?r increase of 124 Members 
during the current year. 
The half-yearly statement of accounts to the 30th June last 
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.' Since then the 
funded capital has been increased by the investment of 4000/. 
in the New Three per Cents. — chiefly the surplus receipts of the 
Liverpool Meeting. The funded property is now 26,511/. lis. 5d. 
New Three per Cents., and the balance in the hands of the 
Bankers on the 1st inst. was 1610/. 19s. 6c?. 
The Liverpool Meeting was one of the largest and most 
successful which the Society has ever held, and the attendance 
on the first three days even equalled that at the Manchester 
Meeting. Unfortunately the wet weather on the two closing 
days prevented many thousands of people from visiting the 
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