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Report to the Annual General Meeting, 
Professor Sir Michael Foster (Honorary Member), Sir John 
Hall, K.C.M.G., Admiral Sir L. G. Heath, K.C.B., Pro- 
fessor R. Warington, F.R.S., Professor A. W. Williamson, 
Mr. Paul Aubert (St. Hilaire, France), Mr. Charles Barton, Mr. 
Richard Bettinson (1852), Mr. Peter Blundell, Mr. Albert Buck 
(1853), Mr. John Chick (1856), Mr. Newton, Clajdon, Mr. 
R. G. Glutton, Mr. S. Copeland, Mr. E. T. Dames-Longworth, 
Mr. George Littleton Dewhurst, Mr. J. E. Erie Drax, Mr. 
Septimus G. Foulkes, Mr. T. C. Garth (1842), Admiral R. H. 
Hamond, Mr. Henry R. Hart, Mr. E. C. Healey (1856), Mr. 
Richard Hewlins, Mr. Archibald Hunter, Mr. A. D. Hussey- 
Freke, Lt.-Col. G. S. C. Jenkinson, Mr. H. J. Keyworth, Mr. 
E. L. Kindersley-Porcher, Mr. George Laing, Capt. J. R. 
Lane-Fox, Mr. Edgar Lubbock, Capt. W. E. Lockhart, Mr. 
J. H. Lutley, Col. A. C. McLeay, Mr. Edward Mucklow, 
Senr., the Rev. T. H. Mynors, Mr. Joseph Perkins, Mr. W. S. 
Perry, Mr. Ernest Prentice, Mr. Thomas Sample, Mr. Coates 
Sharpley, Mr. Thomas Smith (Blacon Point, Chester), Mr. F. J. 
Snowball, Mr. E. J. Stanley, Mr. J. C. Moore Stevens (1846), 
Mr. C. U. Townsend, Mr. John Watts, and Mr. George White 
(Hunton, Maidstone). 
4. The above and other changes bring the total number of 
Governors and Members now on the Register to 9,690, divided 
as follows : — 
1 Foundation Life Governor ; 
171 Annual Governors ; 
91 Life Governors ; 
6,308 Annual Members ; 
3,090 Life Members ; 
29 Honorary Members. 
9,690 Total number of Governors and Members, as against 
a total of 9,620 Membei-s on the Register at the time of the last 
Annual Report. 
5. Owing to ill-health. Sir Charles Whitehead, >vho had 
sei'ved on the Council since the year 1869, felt it necessary, in 
July last, to resign office as one of the Vice-Presidents of the 
Society. To fill the vacancy thus created, the Earl of Yarborough 
has been elected a Vice-President. Mr. Alfred J.' Smith, who 
was elected a Member of the Council in 1886, has also, through 
failing health, resigned his seat. The Division of Suffolk which 
Mr. Smith represented on the Council being one of the Electoral 
Districts <Jf Group “ B,” the vacancy caused by his retirement 
will be filled up in the ordinary course. 
6. In order to bring the By-laws enacted under the Oi'iginal 
Charter of 1840 into conformity with those enacted under 
the Siipplemental Charter of 1905, the two sets have been 
