©fHcial IReports. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
To the Anniversary Getieral Meeting of Governors and Members, 
held in the Hall of the Royal Medical and Chiriergical Society, at 
20 Hanover Square, JV., on Friday, May 22, 1891. 
The Council Iiave to report the following changes in the List of 
Governors and Members during the year wliich has elapsed since 
the last Anniversary Meeting in May 1890 : — 5 new Governors and 
648 Members have joined the Society, 7 have been reinstated under 
Bye-Law 12, and 4 Members have qualified as Governors ; whilst 
the deaths of 3 Annual Governors, 7 Life Governors, 1 Honorary 
Member, 137 Life Members, and 145 Annual Members have been 
reported. A total of 34 Members have been struck off the books 
under Bye-Law 10, owing to absence of addresses ; 150 under Bye- 
Law 11, for arrears of subscriptions ; and 223 have resigned. 
2. Amongst other Governors and Members whose loss by death 
the Society has had to deplore since the beginning of the present 
year are the Duke of Bedford, K.G., and the Earl of Powis (Trustees 
of the Society), the Duke of Somerset, Earl Beauchamp, Earl Gran- 
ville, K.G., Lord Edward Cavendish, M.P., Lord Heytesbury (a 
Member since 1843), the Rt. Hon. G. A. F. Cavendish-Bentinck,M.P., 
Sir Richard Sutton, Bart., Sir Matthew Wilson, Bart, (a Member 
since 1840), Mr. Thomas C. Baring, M.P., Mr. Henry A. Brassey, 
Col. Hambro, M.P., Col. P. S. Humberston (a Member of theCounciJl 
from 1858 to 1865), Mr. Edmund Beck, of Sandringham, Mr. 
Nathaniel Clayton, of Lincoln, and Mr. David Greig, of Leeds. 
3. These and other changes bring the total number of Governors 
and Members now oi(Jthe Register to 10,928, divided as follows : 
34 Foundation Life Governors (Members elected before the 
granting of the Charter on March 26, 1840) ; 
60 Governors paying an annual subscription of 5^. ; 
83 Life Governors who have compounded for their annual 
subscriptions ; 
19 Honorary Members ; 
196 (carried forward) 
