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Jlopal ^gn'rultural ^oneti? of ®nglanti. 
GENERAL MEETING. 
12, Hanoveh Squake, Thursday, December 7, 1871. 
KEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 
presenting their half-yearly Report, have to state that since the 
last General Meeting in May, 6 Governors and 53 Members 
have died, and the names of 33 Members have been removed 
from the list ; on the other hand, 1 Governor and 252 Members 
have been elected, so that the Society now consists of 
69 Life Governors, 
72 Annual Governors, 
1622 Life Members, 
4030 Annual Members, 
14 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 5807, showing an increase of 198 Members 
during the year 1871. 
During the past half-year the Council, has lost some of the 
oldest of its members, the ranks of the Trustees having been 
thinned by the death of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland and Lord 
Berners ; the list of Vice-Presidents by the decease of Mr. 
Samuel Jonas ; and the general body of the Council by the 
death of Mr. John Clayden. These vacancies have been filled 
up by the following elections : — Mr. E. Holland as a Trustee, in 
the place of Lord Berners ; Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart , as a 
Trustee in the room of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., and 
Mr. B. T. Brandreth Gibbs as a Vice-President, in the room of 
Mr. Samuel Jonas. Mr. M'Intosh, of Havering Park, Essex, 
has been elected to fill the vacancy in the Council caused by 
the death of Mr. John Clayden, and the vacancies caused by 
ihe previous elections have been filled by the election of thu 
