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©fficial  IReports. 
REPORT  OF  THE  COUNCIL 
TO  THE 
SIXTY-FIFTH  ANNIVERSARY"  GENERAL  MEETING  OF 
GOVERNORS  AND  MEMBERS  OF  THE  SOCIETY, 
Held  at  the  Society’s  House, 
ON  MONDAY,  MAY  30,  1904,  AT  12  NOON. 
(ADJOURNED  FROM  WHIT-MONDAY,  MAY  23,  1904.) 
The  Earl  of  Derby",  K.G. 
(President)  in  the  Chair. 
1.  The  Council  have  to  report  the  following  changes  in 
the  list  of  Governors  and  Members  during  the  year  which  has 
elapsed  since  the  last  Anniversary  Meeting  in  May,  1903  : — 
9 Governors,  7 Honorary  Members,  and  620  Members  have 
been  admitted  into  the  Society,  and  12  Members  have  been 
reinstated  under  Bye-law  12 ; whilst  the  deaths  of  6 Governors, 
2 Honorary  Members,  88  Life  Members,  and  114  Annual 
Members  have  been  reported.  A total  of  314  Members  have 
resigned  ; whilst  25  have  been  struck  oft'  the  books  under 
Bye-law  10,  owing  to  absence  of  addresses,  and  20  under 
Bj'e-law  11,  for  arrears  of  subscriptions. 
2.  Amongst  the  Governors  and  Members  of  the  Society 
whose  deaths  have  been  announced  since  the  last  meeting  in 
December  are  H.R.H.  the  Duke  of  Cambridge,  K.G.  (a  Governor 
since  1862),  the  Marquis  of  Sligo,  the  Earl  of  Ravensworth,  the 
Earl  of  Strathmore,  Lord  Alington,  Lord  Malcolm  of  Poltalloch, 
Lord  Hem-y  Thynne,  Sir  Hugh  Cholnieley,  Bart.,  Sir  Thomas 
Salt,  Bart.,  Sir  M.  R.  Shaw  Stewart,  Bart.,  Sir  Harry  Bullard, 
M.P.,  Sir  Edward  Walter,  Mr.  Alfred  Crosskill  (a  Member 
since  1856),  Mr.  John  Dugdale,  Captain  Harry  Heaton,  of 
Worsley,  Manchester,  Count  Arthur  Moore,  of  Mooresfort, 
Tipperary,  Mr.  James  Banks  Stanhope,  of  Revesby  Abbey, 
Boston  (a  Member  since  1842),  and  Mr.  Edmund  Tumor,  of 
Panton  Hall,  Wragby. 
