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Official IRepovts. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
TO TUB 
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING OF GOVERNORS AND MEMBERS 
Held at the Society’s House, 
12 Hanover Square, IF., 
ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1893, 
The Duke of Devonshire, K.G. (President), in the Chair. 
The Council have to report that the List of Governors and Members 
has undergone the following changes during the half-year which has 
elapsed since the Anniversary General Meeting on May 29 last 
1 new Governor and 341 Members have joined the Society, 4 have 
been reinstated as Members under Bye-Law 12, and 1 Member has 
qualified as a Governor ; whilst the deaths of 1 Honorary Member, 
6 Governors, 23 Life-Members, and 80 Annual Members have been 
reported. A total of 11 Members have been struck off the books 
under Bye-Law 10, owing to absence of addresses ; 44 under Bye- 
Law 11, for arrears of subscriptions ; and 89 have resigned. 
2 . Amongst other Governors and Members whose loss by death 
the Society has had to deplore since the Anniversary Meeting in 
May last are : — the Earl of Warwick (a Governor since 1859) ; 
Viscount Stormont ; Lord Calthorpe ; the Hon. and Rev. C. J. 
Vernon ; Sir Arnold W. White ; Mr. John D. Allcroft ; Mr. James 
S. Bult, of Taunton (a Member since 1842) ; Mr. Spencer Chadwick 
(who had given the Society much valuable assistance in connection 
with the purchase of Harewood House) ; Mr. J. Cabourne Simonds 
(a Member since 1841) ; Mr. George Culley, C.B. (Commissioner 
of Woods and Forests) ; Mr. J. Bailey Denton, C.E. (the author of 
numerous papers in the Society’s Journal, and of standard works on 
rural economy) ; Mr. R. H. Ellman (a Foundation Life Governor, 
elected in 1839); Mr. Robertson Gladstone, of Court Hey, Liver- 
pool ; Mr. Charles Hobbs, of Maisey Hampton ; Major-General 
C. V. Jenkins; Colonel H. A. F. Luttrell, of Axbridge (a subscriber 
since 1869) ; Mr. C. W. Townley, of Fulbourn, Cambridge ; and Dr. 
Henry J. Webb, B.Sc., Principal of the Aspatria Agricultural College. 
3 . The death of Monsieur Edouard Michel Lecouteux, on October 
24th last, has deprived the Society of one of its most distinguished 
Honorary Members. M. Lecouteux was elected to the Honorary 
Membership of the Society in April 1869, on the occasion of the 
