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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL TO THE 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF GOVERNORS 
AND MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY, 
Held at the Hotel Russell, 
On WEDNESDA Y, December 12, 1906, at 12.30 p.m. 
Me. F. S. W. Cornwallis (President) ill the Chair. 
1. The Council beg to present to the Governors and 
Members of the Society the following Report of their 
transactions during the past year. 
2. The following changes in the list of Governors and 
Members have taken piace : — 85 Governors and 888 Members 
have been elected, and 4 Members have been reinstated under 
Bye-law 12 ; whilst the deaths of 5 Governors, 73 Life Members, 
98 Annual Members, and 3 Honorary Members have been 
reported. A total of 2 Governors and 250 Members have 
resigned ; whilst 27 have been struck off the books under 
Bye-law 10, owing to absence of addresses, and 30 under 
Bye-law 11, for arrears of subscriptions. 
3 . The above and other changes bring the total number of 
Governors and Members now on the Register to 9,620, divided 
as follows : — 
1 Foundation Life Governor ; 
154 Annual Governors ; 
92 Life Governors ; 
6,196 Annual Members ; 
3,147 Life Members ; 
30 Honorary Members. 
9,620 Total number of Governors and Members, as against 
a total of 9,170 Members on the Register on December 31, 1905. 
4 . The Council regret to have to record the deaths of two 
of their number : Mr. Howard P. Ryland, of Moxhull Park, 
Warwickshire, and Mr. J. P. Cross, of Catthorpe Towers, Rugby. 
Mr. Ryland had been a most active Member of Council since 
the year 1894, and had rendered great services on several of the 
Committees, as Steward of Implements and Live Stock, and 
also as Steward of Forage in 1898, when the Society’s Show 
was at Four Oaks, Birmingham. Mr. Ryland’s great interest in 
everything affecting the well-being of the Society was maintained 
until almost the day of his death. Mr. Cross had been a Member 
of the Society since the year 1881, and was elected a Member 
of Council in July, 1905. Two vacancies on the Council have 
arisen in consequence of the resignations of the representatives 
