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death leaves the Society with only one surviving Member, 
Mr. W. Barrow Simonds, elected before the granting of the 
original Charter on March 26, 1840), Mr. E. J. Halsey, Mr. 
Louis Huth, Yet.-Col. J. D. Lambert, C.B., Mr. W. Newton, 
of Crowmarsh Battle, Mr. E. C. Ozanne, of Guernsey, and 
Mr. G. Pitt (a Member since 1845). 
The above and other changes bring the total number of 
Governors and Members now on the Register to 9,276, divided 
as follows : — 
72 Annual Governors ; 
95 Life Governors ; 
5,808 Annual Members ; 
3,270 Life Members ; 
31 Honorary Members. 
9,276 Total number of Governors and Members, as against 
a total of 9,477 Members on the Register, reported to the 
Anniversary General Meeting on May 30 last. 
4. Lord Moreton has been elected a Trustee of the Society 
in the room of the late Lord Ridley, and Mr. Percy Crutchley 
has been appointed to the Vice-Presidency thus vacated. To 
fill a vacancy in the list of Vice-Presidents caused by the 
regretted resignation, through ill-health, of Mr. G. H. Sanday, 
who has rendered very valuable services to the Society as a 
Member of the Council for the last thirty-one years, Mr. J. 
Bowen-Jones has been elected a Vice-President. Mr. J. T. C. 
Eadie, of The Knowle, Hazelwood, Derby, and Mr. Thomas L. 
Aveling, of Rochester, have been elected Members of the 
Council to fill existing vacancies, and will hold office until the 
first Annual General Meeting under the Society’s Supplemental 
Charter, when all the present Council will retire. 
5. It was mentioned in the last Report of the Council 
presented to the General Meeting held on December 8, 1904, 
that active steps were being taken to obtain such an alteration 
of the Society’s original Charter of March 26, 1840, as would 
enable the Society to rearrange its system of appointing the 
Council, with a view to placing it on a more representative 
basis. A Petition to His Majesty the King, praying for the 
grant of a Supplemental Charter to give effect to this object, 
was adopted by the Governors and Members at a Special Meet- 
ing held on January 11, 1905 ; and the Petition was thereupon 
sealed with the Seal of the Society and deposited at the Privy 
Council Office. The Society’s Petition was laid before the 
King in Council on March 20, 1905, when instructions were 
given to the Secretary of State for the Home Department for 
the issue of Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United 
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