Adresses, lettres ou télégrammes de félicitations. 
Académie Britannique, Londres. 
The British Academy to the Royal Academy of Belgium. 
The British Academy ofFers to the Royal Academy of Belgium its 
most sincere congratulations on the célébration of the one hundred 
and fiftieth anniversary of its Foundation. Thrice in the course of its 
history hâve the activities of the Royal Academy been interrupted by 
war; but each time it has risen again more vigorous than hefore, 
to bear witness to the love of learning with which Belgian scholars 
are inspired. The présent occasion is indeed one of happy auspices. 
Released from fout years of oppression by an invading enemy, the 
Royal Academy finds itself now the head-quarters of the scholarship 
of the civilized world; and English scholars join with those of ail 
the continents of the world in paying their bornage to their Belgian 
colleagues. 
England has indeed a spécial right to rejoice in the welfare of 
Belgium, and to wish it prosperity in the future. England has long 
been linked with Belgium by ties of friendship and alliance. Often 
during the last hundred and fifty years hâve English soldiers stood 
side by side with Belgian soldiers on the soil of Belgium, and the 
expérience of the four years of trial 1914-1918, hasgiven to English- 
men an inaliénable interest in the soil of the country in which the 
bodies of so many thousands of their countrymen lie. Henceforward, 
they trust, the alliance will he one of peace, and the British Academy 
asks for nothing better than that it may always be associated with the 
Royal Academy of Belgium in promoting that humane culture, which 
nourishes the love of learning, the love of liberty, the love of honour, 
on which the welfare of the world dépends. 
May the Royal Academy of Belgium fïourish in peace and pros¬ 
perity, and may knowledge be multiplied under its leadership and 
protection. 
(s.) Balfour, {s.) Gollancz, 
President. Sec. Brit. Acad. 
(s.) Frédéric Kenyon, 
H. Stuart Jones, 
Delegates of the Academy. 
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