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^opal agricultural ^on'etp of O^nglanti. 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Square, Thursday, December 10th, 1874. 
KEPOKT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council of the Rojal Agricultural Society have to report 
that, during the year 1874, the number of Governors and 
Members has been increased by the election of 3 Governors and 
349 Members, and diminished by the death of 5 Governors 
and 143 Members, the resignation of 174 Members, and the 
removal of 39 Members by order of the Council. 
The Society now consists of: — 
78 Life Governors, 
56 Annual Governors, 
1994 Life Members, 
3843 Annual Members, 
11 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 5982. 
The changes which have taken place in the Council since the 
election last May have been unusually large. They have been 
caused by the deaths of Sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson, 
Bart., a Trustee of the Society ; the Earl of Egmont, a Vice- 
President of the Society ; iNIr. J. Wells, of Booth Ferrv, Howden ; 
Mr. James Webb, of Fladbury, Pershore ; and Mr. N. G. Barth- 
ropp, of Hacheston, Wickham Market ; Members of Council of 
the Society ; and by the resignation of Viscount Hill, a Vice- 
President of the Society. 
The death of Sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson calls for 
more than a simple record on the part of the Council, of which 
he was an an original Member. As Mr. H. S. Thompson, of 
Kir by Hall, York, he succeeded Mr. Pusey as Editor of the 
Society's ' Journal,' and as Chairman of the ' Journal ' Committee. 
He was for many years a Trustee of the Society ; and fdled the 
