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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
To the fifty-fourth Anniversary General Meeting of Governors and 
Members of the Society , held in the Hall of the Royal Medical and 
Chirurgical Society , at 20 Hanover Square , IV., on Monday, 
May 29, 1893. ( Adjourned from Whit Monday, May 22 , 1893.,) 
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 1892 5 new Governors 
and 611 Members have joined the Society, 8 have been reinstated 
under Bye-Law 12, and 8 Members have qualified as Governors ; 
whilst the deaths of 1 Honorary Member, 3 Annual Governors, 9 Life- 
Governors, 72 Life Members, and 123 Annual Members have been 
reported. A total of 5 Members have been struck off the books 
under Bye-Law 10, owing to absence of addresses ; 122 under Bye- 
Law 11, for arrears of subscriptions ; and 248 have resigned. 
2 . Through the death of the Duke of Bedford, a Member of the 
Council, the Society has lost a munificent patron. Since his suc- 
cession to the title in the year 1891, the late Duke has borne the 
whole of the expenses in connection with the Society’s Experimental 
Farm at Woburn, inaugurated by his father, and he has also, in 
other ways, manifested a deep interest in the Society’s welfare. 
The Council report with great satisfaction that the present Duke of 
Bedford has not only joined the Society as a Governor in succession 
to his late brother, but has also expressed his wish to provide for 
the carrying on of the Experimental Farm at Woburn as heretofore. 
3 . Amongst other Governors and Members whose loss by death 
the Society has had to deplore since the beginning of the present 
year, are : the Earl of Derby, K.G. (a subscriber since 1849), Lord 
Northbourne, Lord Petre, Lord St. Oswald, the Hon. E. W. Lascelles, 
Sir W. Barttelot, Bart., M.P., Sir C. de Hoghton, Bart., Sir Henry F. 
Every, Bart., Sir John Gibbons, Bart., Sir William Smith, Bart., Sir 
A. B. Walker, Bart., Mr. S. H. Ashdown, of Wellington, Salop (a 
member since 1842), Mr. George Botham, of Slough (a member since 
