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KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM has recently appointed the first thirty members of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium. The Academy comprises three classes: Sciences, Letters (including Political and Moral Sciences) and Fine Arts. A decree creating a Flemish Academy of Medicine may be expected to follow soon. This will form a complete equivalent of the old Académie Royale de Belgique, the official language of which is French. By thus putting both Academies on the same footing, instead of merely organizing a bilingual system within the Académie de Belgique, the Belgian authorities have achieved a further step towards cultural autonomy of the Flemish and French-speaking parts of the kingdom -following upon the creation of the Flemish University at Ghent soon after the Great War. For the present, each of the three classes of the new Flemish institution will consist of ten members appointed by royal decree. Further members will be co-opted, the total number being confined to twenty per
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The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium. Nature 142, 504–505 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142504d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142504d0