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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
TO THE 
SIXTY-SIXTH ANNIVERSARY GENERAL MEETING OF 
GOVERNORS AND MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY, 
Held at the Society’s House, 
ON MONDAY, MAY 22, 1905, AT 3 P.M. 
Lord Middleton 
(President) in the Chair. 
1. 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, 1904 : — 
13 Governors and 492 Members have been admitted into the 
Society, and 15 Members have been reinstated under Bye-law 
12 ; whilst the deaths of 6 Governors, 88 Life Members, and 
126 Annual Members have been reported. A total of 410 
Members have resigned ; whilst 23 have been struck off the 
books under Bye-law 10 OAving to absence of addresses, and 
51 under Bye-law 11 for arrears of subscriptions. ~ 
2 . The Council have to deplore the loss by death on 
January 30 last of their colleague, Mr. J. E. Ransome, of Ipswich, 
who joined the Council in 1886, and who did useful work for 
the Society as a Member of its Botanical, Implement, and 
Education Committees. Amongst other Governors and 
Members whose deaths have been announced since the last 
meeting in December are the Earl of Morley, Earl Stanhope, 
Lord Henry Vane-Tempest, Lord Norton (a Member since 
1841), Lord Tollemache, Sir John Barran, Bart., Sir I. Lowthian 
Bell, Bart., Sir M. W. Collet, Bart., Gen. Sir F. Fitzwygram, 
Bart., Sir R. Jardine, Bart., Mr. J. K. D. Wingfield-Digby, M.P., 
Mr. S. B. L. Druce (Auditor from 1892 to 1897), Mr. W. H. 
Emson (a Member since 1847), Mr. John Philip Fletcher, of 
Darby Lodge, Sunbury-on-Thames (a Foundation Life Governor 
of the Society, elected a Member on June 19, 1839, whose 
