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©ffici'al IRepoi'ts. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
TO TFE 
GENERAL MEETING OF GOVERNORS AND MEMBERS, 
HELD IX THE 
Hall op the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 
At 20 Hanover Square, IF., 
on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1892, 
The Duke of Westminster, 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 23 last: — 
3 new Governors and 298 Members have joined the Society, 4 have 
been re-instated as Members under Bye-law 12, and 7 Members 
have qualified as Governors ; whilst the deaths of 6 Life Governors, 
3 Annual GoA ernors, 42 Life Members, and G5 Annual Members have 
been reported. A total of 4 INIembers have been struck off the book.s 
under Bye-Law 10, owing to absence of addre.sses ; 34 under Bye- 
law 11, for arrears of subscriptions ; and 141 have resigned. 
2. The Council have to deplore the recent loss by death of their 
valued colleague, Mr. C. De L. Faunce De Laune, who joined the 
Society as a Governor in 1878. Elected a Member of the Council 
in 1885, Mr. De Laune has since that time rendered valuable 
.services upon the Society’s Chemical and Seeds and Plant Diseases 
Committees, and more recently upon the Journal and Education 
Committees also. 
3. Amongst other Governors and Members who have died since 
the Anniversary Meeting on May 23 last, are the Duke of Suther- 
land, K.G. ; the Duke of Marlborough ; the INlarquis of Drogheda ; 
Earl Bathurst ; the Earl of Essex (a Foundation Life Governor) ; 
the Earl of Harewood ; Viscount Sherbrooke ; Lord Winmarleigh 
(a Foundation Life Governor) ; the Hon. J. J. Carnegie (a Member 
since 1844); the Hon. J. C. Dundas ; Sir Thomas Evans, Bart.; 
Sir W. B. Riddell, Bart. ; Col. Sir H. F. Custance, K.C.B. ; Mr. 
Barclay Field ; Mr. H. W. Freeland ; ]\Ir. T. Tertius Paget ; Mr. 
J. E. Knollys and Mr. Wm. Parker (Members since 1843); and 
Mr. George Taylor (a Member since 1841). 
