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GENERAL MEETING, 
12, Hanover Square, Thursday, December 11th, 1879. 
EEPOET OF THE COUNCIL. 
In presenting the usual Half-yearly Report to the General 
Meeting in December, the Council have to express their satis- 
faction at the remarkably large number of Governors and 
Members who have been elected during the year ; but at the 
same time they must express their regret and disappointment 
that the International Exhibition at Kilburn has resulted in a 
serious drain upon the funded capital of the Society. 
During the year 1879, the number of Governors and Mem- 
bers has been increased by the election of 4 Governors and 
1285 Members, and diminished by the death of 3 Governors 
and 90 Members, and the removal of 96 Members from resig- 
nation or by order of the Council. 
The Society now consists of: — 
82 Life Governors, 
71 Annual Governors, 
2619 Life Members, 
5099 Annual Members, 
20 Honorary Members, 
making a total of 7891, and showing an increase of 1094 
Members during the current year. 
The Council have the pleasure of announcing that the 
Prince of Wales having graciously expressed a desire of taking 
part in the proceedings of the Society as a Member of Council, 
His Royal Highness has been unanimously elected a Trustee of 
the Society. 
By the end of this year the funded capital of the Society 
will have been reduced by the sum of 14,000/., of which nearly 
