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GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanovee Squake, Wednesday, December 11, 1861. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
Since tlie last General Meeting in May, 3 Governors and 28 
Members have died ; the names of 53 Members have been re- 
moved from the list on retirement or otherwise, and 163 new 
Members have been elected ; so that the Society now consists 
of— 
84 Life Governors, 
95 Annual Governors, 
1124 Life Members, 
3399 Annual Members, and 
17 Honorary Members, 
making- a total of 4719 names on the list of the Society at the 
present time ; being an increase of 86 since the date of the last 
Report. 
The Council have appointed the Right Hon. the Earl of 
Powis a Trustee of the Society in the place of the late Right 
Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart. ; and have elected Mr. W. William 
Wells, of Redleaf ; Mr. Charles Randell, of Evesham ; and the 
Hon. Colonel W. Cotton, of Malpas, General Members of the 
Council, to supply the vacancies created by the resignation of 
the Earls of Romney and Macclesfield, and the Hon. Colonel 
Douglas Pennant, M.P. 
The half-yearly statement of accounts to the 30th June, 1861, 
has been examined and approved by the Auditors and Ac- 
countants of the Society. The finances were never in a more 
satisfactory condition than at present, the sum of 3000/. having 
been lately added to the funded capital of the Society, which 
now amounts to 17,488?. 17s. lOd. stock in the New Three per 
