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since 1856), Mr. C. P. Noel, Mr. Hussey Packe, Mr. A. T. T. 
Peterson, Mr. Thomas Radmore, Mr. W. B. Roderick, Col. 
E. J. St. John (Member since 1852), Mr. Josiah Smyth, 
Mr. F. C. Le Gendre Starkie, Mr. B. Stimpson (Norwich), 
Col. H. F. Swan, Mr. A. Grant Thorold, Mr. John T. Tliurlow, 
Mr. T. H. Thursfield (Member since 1864), Mr. A. C. Twentyman, 
Mr. Joseph Wainwright, Captain E. M. Whitting, Mr. Thomas 
Wibberley, Mr. Henry Williams (Moor Park, Harrogate), 
Mr. Owen J. Williams (St. Asaph), and Mr. F. W. Wragg, 
F. R.C.Y.S. 
8. The above and other changes bring the total number of 
Governors and Members now on the register to 9,739 divided 
as follows 
1 Foundation Life Governor ; 
182 Annual Governors ; 
84 Life Governors ; 
6,418 Annual Members ; 
3,024 Life Members ; 
30 Honorary Members. 
9,739 Total number of Governors and Members, as against 
a total of 9,690 Members on the Register at the time of the last 
Annual Report. 
9. In recognition of the valuable services rendered by him 
to the Agriculture of Canada, the Council have elected, as an 
Honorary Member of the Society, Dr. William Saunders, 
C.M.G., F.R.S.C., F.L.S., Director of Experimental Farms, 
Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. 
10. The Members of Council who retire by rotation at the 
forthcoming Annual Meeting are those representing the 
Electoral Districts of Group “ A.” The number of Members 
resident in Northumberland on the 1st August last being 319, 
this Division is now entitled to two representatives instead of 
one as heretofore. On the other hand, as the membership in 
both Middlesex and Staffordshire has decreased to less than 
300, each of those Divisions loses a Member of Council at the 
1908 Election, and is now only entitled to one representative. 
The results of the elections in the several Divisions of Group 
“ A ” will be announced at the Annual Meeting. 
11. Having ascertained that the Earl of Jersey, G.C.B., 
G. C.M.G. (a Vice-President of the Society), would be willing 
to allow himself to be nominated as President of the Society 
for the year 1909, the Council have unanimously decided to 
recommend, at the Annual Meeting, the Election of his Lordship 
to that office. 
12. Under the By-laws, the balance-sheet has to be presented 
for consideration at the Annual General Meeting. The Council 
