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Royal Society of Thailand
The Royal Society is the national academy of Thailand responsible for academic works of the government of Thailand.
The secretariat of the society is the Office of the Royal Society of Thailand (ORST), formerly known as the Royal Institute. The office is an independent agency of the government, but subject to the supervision of the prime minister.
Members of the society consist of associate fellows, fellows, and honorary fellows. The associate fellows are academicians selected and appointed by the society. The fellows are associate fellows selected by the society and appointed by the monarch upon advice of the prime minister. The honorary fellows are prominent academicians selected by the society and appointed in the same way as the fellows.
The society is known for its roles in the planning and regulation of the Thai language, as well as its many publications, particularly the Royal Institute Dictionary, the official and prescriptive dictionary of the Thai language, and the Royal Thai General System of Transcription, the official system for romanization of Thai.
The Royal Society was established on 19 April 1926 by King Prajadhipok by combining the various existing agencies in charge of national libraries, national museums, literature works, engineering works, historical sites, and historical objects into one and the same agency for the reason that "Siam should have a learned society as in Western countries".
The king named the society in Thai as Ratchabanditthayasapha (literally, "Society of Royal Pandits") after Krom Ratchabandit (literally, "Department of Royal Pandits"), an ancient government department in the Ministry of Public Instruction.
After the Siamese revolution of 1932, the People's Party which carried out the revolution reorganised the Royal Society at the initiative of one of its members, Pridi Banomyong, by dissolving the Royal Society and splitting the works of the dissolved society into two new agencies, the Royal Institute and the Fine Arts Department, on 31 March 1934.
The reasons for the reorganisation were stated by Luang Wichitwathakan, the first secretary general of the Royal Institute, as follows: "Our Royal Society had been in place since 2469 BE but it had not been structured to be what it should be. Instead of making the Royal Society a place for academic works like the present Royal Institute, the members of the Royal Society were loaded with administrative works, causing them to waste most of their time doing administrative works and have a little time for doing academic works. In addition, there had been no law or any other regulation requiring members of the Royal Society to do academic works."
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Royal Society of Thailand
The Royal Society is the national academy of Thailand responsible for academic works of the government of Thailand.
The secretariat of the society is the Office of the Royal Society of Thailand (ORST), formerly known as the Royal Institute. The office is an independent agency of the government, but subject to the supervision of the prime minister.
Members of the society consist of associate fellows, fellows, and honorary fellows. The associate fellows are academicians selected and appointed by the society. The fellows are associate fellows selected by the society and appointed by the monarch upon advice of the prime minister. The honorary fellows are prominent academicians selected by the society and appointed in the same way as the fellows.
The society is known for its roles in the planning and regulation of the Thai language, as well as its many publications, particularly the Royal Institute Dictionary, the official and prescriptive dictionary of the Thai language, and the Royal Thai General System of Transcription, the official system for romanization of Thai.
The Royal Society was established on 19 April 1926 by King Prajadhipok by combining the various existing agencies in charge of national libraries, national museums, literature works, engineering works, historical sites, and historical objects into one and the same agency for the reason that "Siam should have a learned society as in Western countries".
The king named the society in Thai as Ratchabanditthayasapha (literally, "Society of Royal Pandits") after Krom Ratchabandit (literally, "Department of Royal Pandits"), an ancient government department in the Ministry of Public Instruction.
After the Siamese revolution of 1932, the People's Party which carried out the revolution reorganised the Royal Society at the initiative of one of its members, Pridi Banomyong, by dissolving the Royal Society and splitting the works of the dissolved society into two new agencies, the Royal Institute and the Fine Arts Department, on 31 March 1934.
The reasons for the reorganisation were stated by Luang Wichitwathakan, the first secretary general of the Royal Institute, as follows: "Our Royal Society had been in place since 2469 BE but it had not been structured to be what it should be. Instead of making the Royal Society a place for academic works like the present Royal Institute, the members of the Royal Society were loaded with administrative works, causing them to waste most of their time doing administrative works and have a little time for doing academic works. In addition, there had been no law or any other regulation requiring members of the Royal Society to do academic works."
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