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GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanovek Squaue, Satuudav, May 22xd, 1875. 
REPOKT OF THE COUXCIL. 
In presenting their Annual Report to the Members of the Royal 
Agricultural Society the Council have to congratulate them on 
the large accession to the list of Members which has taken 
place during the five months which have elapsed since the 
General Meeting in December. In that period 8 Governors 
and 64 Members have died, the names of 25 Members have been 
removed from the list by order of the Council, in addition to 
those of 115 others who resigned their membership in the course 
of the year 1874. These losses have been more than counter- 
balanced by the election of 16 Governors and 359 Members, and 
the transfer of 16 Members to the list of Governors. 
The Society now consists of: — 
79 Life Governors, 
79 Annual Governors, 
2058 Life Members, 
3918 Annual Members, 
11 Honorary Members, 
The total number of the Society is thus 6145, showing an increase 
of 24 Governors and 139 Members since the Half-yearly Meeting 
last December; and one of 24 Governors and 276 Members 
during the whole year which has elapsed since the Annual 
Meeting in jMay, 1874. 
The Council regret that they have to record the great loss 
which the Society has sustained during the past half-year by the 
deaths of Lord Tredegar and Mr. Holland, Trustees and former 
Presidents of the Society, Lord Kesteven, a Trustee, and Mr. 
William Torr, of Aylesby, Lincolnshire, a most active and 
valuable Member of the Council. 
The vacancies in the list of Trustees caused by the deaths of 
Lord Kesteven and Mr. Holland have been filled up by the 
