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3aoyaI Slsn'cultui-al ^otitt^ oi englanti* 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanovkr Squake, Wednesday, December 12, ISGl. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council liave to report that the Society consists, at the. 
present time, of — 
85 Life Governors, 
95 Annual Governors, 
1,093 Life Members, 
3,651 Annual Members, and 
18 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 4,942 names on the list. 
The Members of the Society will have shared with the Council 
their sense of the great loss they have sustained by the decease 
of the Duke of Richmond, one of the Trustees of the Society, 
and will long cherish the memory of one who had filled three 
times the office of President, and always evinced a warm interest 
in the affairs of the Societv. 
The Council have elected the Duke of JNIarlborough to fill the 
vacancy among the Trustees, and Mr. Owen Wallis, of Over- 
stone Grange, Northampton, to supply the vacancy among the 
general members of the Council, created by the resignation of 
Lord Southampton. 
The statement of accounts for the half-year ending 30th June, 
1860, has been approved by Messrs. Quilter, Ball, and Co., 
public accountants. 
The funded capital consists of 12,000/. stock ; and it is hoped 
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