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GENERAL  MEETING, 
12,  Hanover  Square,  Saturday,  Dec.  15, 
REPORT  OF  THE  COUNCIL. 
The  Council  have  to  make  the  following  Report  to  the 
Member*  of  the  Society  on  the  occasion  of  their  present  General 
Meeting. 
During  the  past-half  year  2 Governors  nml  Is'J  Members 
have  been  elected,  3 Governors  ami  71  Members  have  died,  and 
the  names  of  4 Governors  and  23f>  Members  have  been  removed 
from  the  list.  The  Society  now  consists  of  the  following  num- 
bers : — 
90  Life  Governors, 
173  Annual  Governors, 
607  Life  Members, 
4499  Annual  Members,  and 
19  Honorary  Members, 
making  a total  of  5389  Members.  This  total  amount,  being 
124  less  than  at  the  former  General  Meeting,  does  not  indicate  so 
much  a reduction  in  the  actual  Members  of  the  Society  ns  n re- 
moval of  those  names  from  the  list  which  were  put  down  for 
temporary  ami  local  purposes  only,  nt  the  early  Country  Meet- 
ings of  the  Society;  the  new  Members  now  joining  the  Society 
consisting  of  those  steady  friends  to  agricultural  improvement, 
who,  on  higher  grounds,  take  a permanent  interest  in  the  advance- 
ment of  its  objects,  nml  in  its  continued  prosperity. 
