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©fficial IRcpoi'ts. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
To the Anniversary General Meeting of Governors and Members^ 
held in the Hall of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, at 
20 Hanover Square, JK, on Monday, May 23, 1892. 
The Council have to repoi’t the follovang changes in the List of 
Governors and Members during the year which has elapsed since 
the last Anniversary Meeting in May 1891 : — 9 new Governors 
(including H.R.H. Prince George of Wales, K.G.)and802 Members 
have joined the Society, 10 have been reinstated under Bye-law 12, 
and 9 Members have qualified as Governors ; whilst the deaths of 
1 Annual Governor, 14 Life-Governors, 2 Honorary Members, 203 
Annual Members, and 101 Life Members have been reported. A 
total of 22 Members have been struck off the books under Bye-law 10, 
owing to absence of addresses, and 108 under Bye-law 11, for arrears 
of subscriptions ; whilst 253 have resigned. 
2 . The untimely death of H.R.H. the late Duke of Clarence and 
Avondale — felt by all classes of Her Majesty’s subjects as one of the 
saddest calamities that have ever befallen Her Majesty the Queen 
and the nation at large — was a cause of peculiar sorrow to this 
Society, of which His Royal Highness was a Member, as well as to 
the whole of the great agricultural community, with whose interests 
the Royal Family have always identified themselves. At the 
February meeting of the Council, it became their melancholy duty 
to give expression to the common grief by the presentation, in the 
name and under tlie seal of the Society, of humble and loyal 
addresses of condolence to Her Majesty the Queen and Their 
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales in their painful 
bereavement. Both addresses have been very graciously received 
and acknowledged. 
3 , By the death of the Duke of Devonshire the Society has 
lost its oldest Vice-President, and one who has rendered important 
services to the Society in the past. The late Duke joined the 
English Agricultural Society as Governor so early as 1838 ; and 
was thus an original Member of the Royal Agricultural Society 
of England. In 1867 he was elected a Member of Council and 
