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Bopal Sign'cultural ^orietj) of (Cnulanli* 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Square, Thursday, December 8th, 1881. i 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 
have to report that, during the year 1881, the number of 
Governors and Members has been increased by the election of 
1 Governor and 461 Members, and diminished by the death of 
5 Governors and 141 Members, the resignation of 236 Members, 
and the removal of 40 by order of the Council. 
The Society now consists of: — 
84 Life Governors, 
69 Annual Governors, 
2796 Life Members, 
5154 Annual Members, 
19 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 8122, and showing an increase of 40 during 
the year. 
Since the Annual IMeeting of May the Council have been 
deprived of the services of four of their colleagues by the 
lamented death of Mr. W. T. Carrington and Mr. D. Mcintosh, 
and the resignations of Sir W. E. Wei by-Gregory, Bart., and 
Mr. E. Bowly. At the Annual Meeting an existing vacancy 
caused by the death of Mr. D. R. Davies was filled by the 
election of the Hon. Cecil T. Parker ; and since then the 
Council have elected Mr. Walter Gilbey in the room of the 
late Mr. Odams, Sir John Thorold, Bart., in the place of Sir 
W. E. Welby-Gregory, and jNIr. Herbert J. Little, of Coldham 
Hall, Wisbech, in the room of the late Mr. Mcintosh. The 
