780 
Report to the General Meeting, 
establishment — on the model of the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England — -of the Societe des Agriculteurs de France, of which he 
was one of the chief founders and the first Secretary. The Council 
have elected, as an Honorary Member of the Society, Professor 
Auguste Chauveau, M.D., LL.D., Inspector-General of the Veteri- 
nary Department of the French Government, in recognition of his 
distinguished services to veterinary science as applied to agriculture. 
4. These and other changes bring the total number of Governors 
and Members now on the Register to 11,219, divided as follows : — • 
24 Foundation Life Governors (Members elected before the 
granting of the Charter on March 26, 1840) ; 
73 Governors paying an annual subscription of 5Z. ; 
79 Life Governors ; 
7,223 Members paying an annual subscription of 1Z. j 
3,705 Life Members ; 
94 Life Members by Examination ; 
21 Honorary Members. 
11,219 Total number of Governors and Members ; 
or a net increase of 160 Members since the same period last year. 
5. In the report of the Council to the General Meeting held in 
May last, reference was made to the acquisition, as the future 
permanent home of the Society, of the adjoining property, Harewood 
House, which had been made possible by the generous action of the 
Duke of Westminster and Sir Walter Gilbey in taking upon them- 
selves the responsibility of the purchase of the entire site (including 
the stables and the Oxford Street frontage). The Council beg now 
to report the completion of the purchase of the site of the mansion 
of Harewood House, with an additional strip of land at the side, 
for the inclusive sum of 37,000/. ; and the issue of an equal amount 
of Harewood House Three per Cent. Debenture Stock, secured 
upon the property. This 37,000/. Stock has been subscribed for by 
122 Members and their friends, and its issue has enabled the Society 
to keep intact its General Reserve Fund of 30,000/. 
6. The Society is indebted to the following noblemen and 
gentlemen for donations towards the acquisition of the property : — 
The Duke of Northumbei’land, K.G. 
. £500 
Lord Leconfield ..... 
400 
Sir Wm. Cunliffe Brooks, Bart. . 
300 
The Marquis of Ripon, K.G. 
200 
Mr. W. W. Astor .... 
200 
Lord Burton ..... 
100 
Lord Tollemache ..... 
100 
Mr. Alex. Gordon .... 
100 
Mr. Charles Whitehead . . 
100 
Sir John Ramsden, Bart. 
50 
Hon. W. F. D. Smith, M.P. 
Mr. H. Cosmo Bonsor, M.P, . , 
25 
25 
£ 2,100 
