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&opal Agricultural J>octetp of (England 
GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Square, Monday, May 23, 1864. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
The Council have the gratification of announcing that since the 
last General Meeting in December, His Royal Highness the 
Prince of Wales has allowed his name to be enrolled in the list 
of your Governors. 
During the past five months the names of 5. Governors and 
136 members have been removed from the list by death and 
retirement, while 1 Governor and 232 members have been 
elected ; so that the Society now consists of — 
78 Life Governors, 
45 Annual Governors, 
1,343 Life Members, 
4,013 Annual Members, 
17 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 5,496, being an increase of 53 names. 
The Council have elected Major-General the Hon. Alexander 
Nelson Hood as a Vice-President, in the room of Lord Ash- 
burton, deceased. 
The half-yearly statement of accounts to the 31st December, 
1863, has been examined and approved by the auditors and 
accountants of the Society, and together with the Balance-Sheet 
for the whole year 1863, and a statement of the Country Meeting 
account for Worcester, has been published in the last number of 
the 'Journal.' The funded capital stands at 16,488/. 17s. lOd. 
in the New Three per Cents. ; 3000/. has been placed on deposit 
at interest with the Society's bankers, and the current cash 
balance in their hands on the 1st inst. was 2836/. 6s. 6<7. 
