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Koyal asiicuUural Society of Cnglanti. 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanovee Square, Saturday, Dec. 15, 1855. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Society, during the past lialf-year, has lost 40 of its ^lem- 
bers by death ; and gained, during the same period, 116 new 
Members by election. Its list now contains — 
90 Life Governors, 
140 Annual Governors, 
815 Life Members, 
3895 Annual Members, and 
18 Honorary Members. 
The Council have elected Lord Berners to fill the vacancy in 
the number of Trustees, occasioned by the lamented decease oi 
Mr. Pusey ; and the Earl of Essex to supply the vacancy in the 
General Members of Council, created by the transfer of Lord 
Berners's name to the class of Trustees. 
The Society at large will have deeply participated with the 
Council, in their sense of the great loss they have sustained, in 
the removal of Mr. Pusey from the sphere of his invaluable 
labours ; and from the direction of that Journal which has so 
Ions: formed a strons; bond of union among its members. 
The Council have already expressed, through their President, 
Lord Portman, their condolence with the family of Mr. Pusey on 
their irreparable loss, and their grateful remembrance of his de- 
voted services to the Society. 
