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Official IRepcvts. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
TO THE 
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING OF GOVERNORS AND MEMBERS 
Held at the Society’s House, 
13 Hanover Square, W., 
ON THURSDAY, DEOEMBER 13, 1894, 
Sir John H. Thorold, Bart. (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 22 last : — 
7 new Governors and 235 Members have joined the Society, 5 have 
been re-instated as Members under Bye-Law 12, and 6 Members 
have qualified as Governors ; whilst the deaths of 5 Governors, 
16 Life-Members, and 79 Annual Members have been reported. A 
total of 12 Members have been struck off the books under Bye- 
Law 10, owing to absence of addresses ; 23 under Bye-Law 11, for 
arrears of subscriptions ; and 64 have resigned. 
2 . The death of Mr. James Rawlence, at the great age of eighty- 
four, has deprived the Council of an active and valued colleague. Mr. 
Rawlence became a Member of the Society so long ago as 1844, 
and was elected to a seat on the Council in 1871. 
3 . The Council have elected as an Honorary Member of the 
Society Professor Wilhelm Fleischmann, Director of the Agricultural 
Institute of the Royal University of Konigsberg, in recognition 
of his distinguished services to European Agriculture, and especially 
to the industry of dairying ; and they have appointed Professor 
G. T. Brown, C.B., as Consulting Veterinary Surgeon to the Society, 
in conjunction with Professor Simonds. 
4 . Amongst other Governors and Members whose loss by death 
the Society has had to deplore since the Anniversary Meeting in 
May last are Earl Grey, lv.G., one of the original founders of the 
Society, and its oldest member since the death of Sir Harry 
Verney ; the Marquess of Headfort, Earl Sondes, Viscount Hardinge 
