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§^02)al Agricultural ^ociets of a^ncjlantr. 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanoveb Squaee, Feiday, May 22xd, 1885 
KEPOKT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council are glad to be able to report that the recent 
accession of Members to the Society has continued during the 
past half-year, during which period 337 Members have been 
elected. The changes in the roll of the Society since the last 
Annual Meeting in May 1884, have been the following: — 
724 Members have been elected, 184 have resigned, 7 Gover- 
nors and 122 Members have died, and 74 Members have been 
removed from the list by order of the Council. 
The Society now consists of 
71 Life Governors, 
69 Annual Governors, 
3356 Life Members, 
5619 Annual Members, 
20 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 9135, and showing an increase of 359 
Members since this time last year. 
The vacancy in the Council reported at the last General 
Meeting has been filled up by the election of the Earl of 
Coventry ; and a more recent vacancy, caused by the death of 
