( V ) 
^opal agricultural ^oci'etp of (Cnglanli. 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanoveb Square, Thursday, Decembee 11th, 1884. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council have to congratulate the Society upon the con- 
tinued increase in the number of its Members. During the 
present year the changes in the list have been as follows : — 
3 Governors and 1098 Members have been elected ; 1 Member 
has qualified as a Governor; the deaths of 7 Governors and 112 
Members have been reported ; 200 Members have resigned ; and 
109 Members have been removed from the list by order of the 
Council. 
The Society now consists of : — 
73 Life Governors, 
71 Annual Governors, 
3281 Life Members, 
5579 Annual Members, 
20 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 9024, and showing an increase of 672 during 
the year 1884. 
In illustration of the recent increase in the number of Mem- 
bers of the Society the Council may usefully refer to the Report 
to the General Meeting held in December, 1874, when the total 
was 5982, so that during the last ten years the net increase has 
averaged 304 per annum. 
The Council deplore the grievous loss which agriculture as 
well as the Society have so recently sustained by the death of 
