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GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Square, Wednesday, May 22, 1861. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council have to report to the Members at their present 
General Meeting that during the past half-year 87 Members 
have been elected into the Society, 6 Governors and 67 
Members have died, and the names of 236 Members have been 
on various accounts omitted from the list of the Society, which 
accordingly now comprises — 
84 Life Governors, 
90 Governors, 
3,328 Members, 
1,113 Life Members, and 
18 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 4,633 names on the list. 
The Council have elected Lord Feversham to supply the 
vacancy in the class of Trustees, and Lord Walsingham in that 
of the Vice-Presidents, caused by the decease of His Grace 
the Duke of Sutherland, and the resignation of the Earl of 
Hardwicke. 
Mr. William Sanday, of Holmepierrepont, has been elected 
a Member of the Council in the room of Lord Walsingham, and 
the Earl Cathcart in the room of Lord Feversham. 
The statement of accounts for the half-year ending 31st 
December, 1860, has been examined and approved by the 
Society's auditors, and by Messrs. Quilter, Ball, and Co. 
The funded capital has been lately raised to the amount of 
