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Official IRcpovts. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
TO THE 
FIFTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY GENERAL MEETING OF 
GOVERNORS AND MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 
Held in the Hall of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 
20 Hanover Square, W. 
ON TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1894, 
The Dcke of Devonshire, K.G. (President), in the Chair. 
The Council have to report the following changes in the list of 
Governors and Members during the year which has elapsed since 
the last Anniversary Meeting in May 1893 : — Two new Governors 
and 622 Members have joined the Society, 5 Members have been 
reinstated under Bye-Law 12, and 18 Members have qualified as 
Governors ; whilst the deaths of 1 Honorary Member, 2 Annual 
Governors, 10 Life Governors, 52 Life Members, and 138 Annual 
Members have been reported. A total of 22 Members have been 
struck off the books under Bye-Law 10, owing to absence of ad- 
dresses ; 67 under Bye-Law 11, for arrears of subscriptions ; and 
228 have resigned. 
2. The Council greatly regret to have to report the loss of the 
Rt. Hon. Sir Harry Yerney, Bart., the “Father” of the Society, 
who died on February 12 last at the patriarchal age of 92. Sir 
Harry Yerney was the last survivor of those who met together at 
the Freemasons’ Tavern on May 9, 1838, to found the English 
Agricultural Society, and he was a Member of the original Com- 
mittee. Up to the time of his death he continued to manifest the 
keenest interest in all matters relating to the Society and to agri- 
culture generally. 
3. Through the lamented death, under circumstances of peculiar 
painfulness, of Mr. George Mander Allender, the Council have lost 
an active and valued colleague. Mr. Allender had been a member 
of the Council since 1881, and his practical mind and business 
acumen were always of great value in the deliberations of the 
various Committees on which he served. 
4. Amongst other Governors and Members whose loss by death 
the Society has had to deplore since the beginning of the present 
year are : — The Earl of Bective, the Earl of Lindsay, the Earl of 
Lovelace (a Foundation Life Governor), Yiscount Somerton, Lord 
