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THE one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy of Belgium will be celebrated in Brussels on May 23–24. More than ninety delegates, representing forty-five academies in eighteen different countries, in addition to foreign associates of the Belgian Academy, are expected to attend the function. France is sending a number of representatives; the Institute of France alone will have thirty-six delegates. We learn from the Secretary of the Academy that the learned societies of Great Britain will be represented as follows: Royal Society, Sir William Leishman and Prof. H. Lamb (also representing the Cambridge Philosophical Society); Royal Society of Edinburgh, Sir George Berry; Royal Academy, Sir George Frampton, Sir Reginald Blomfield, and Mr. H. Hughes-Stanton; Royal Institute of British Architects, Sir John Burnet, Mr. J. Simpson, and Mr. P. Waterhouse; Royal Geographical Society, Sir Frederick Sykes; Royal Historical Society, Mr. G. M. T. Omond; British Academy, Sir Frederic Kenyon and Mr. H. Stuart-Jones; Chemical Society, Sir William Pope; Zoological Society, Dr. G. A. Boulenger and Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell; Asiatic Society of Bengal, Sir Thomas H. Holland and Dr. Pascoe. The following British Associates of the Belgian Academy will be present: Sir Frank Dyson, Sir T. Erskine Holland, Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir Thomas Jackson, Sir John Lavery, and Mr. J. Pennell. The learned societies of Australia and New Zealand and the Royal Irish Academy have sent congratulatory addresses.
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Current Topics and Events. Nature 109, 654–656 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109654d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109654d0