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Bopal Agricultural ^orieti? of ©nglanli* 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanovee Square, Monday, May 22sd, 1882. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council have to announce that the list of the Society 
during the past year has been diminished by the resignation of 
149 Members, as well as by the death of 7 Governors and 
181 Members, and the removal of 58 Members by order of the 
Council. Since the last General Meeting in December these 
deficiencies have been repaired by the election of 2 Governors 
and 185 Members. 
The Society now consists of 
82 Life Governors, 
71 Annual Governors, 
2849 Life Members, 
5059 Annual Members, 
19 Honorary Members — 
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f making a total of 8080, and showing a decrease of 42 since 
the December General Meeting, but an increase of 101 since 
the last Annual Meeting in May, 1881. 
Since the last General Meeting the Council have sustained 
a severe loss by the death of their much-esteemed colleague, 
Mr. Aveling, of Rochester, and the vacancy caused thereby is 
still under the consideration of the Council. 
The vacancies in the Council caused by the death of Mr. 
Carrington and Mr. Bowly have been filled up by the election 
