In 1919, Pedro de Azevedo submitted another application to the Academy of Sciences, this time for full membership. To this end, he submitted four more publications for evaluation, which he considered to be the most relevant of his entire output: Documentos das chancelarias reais anteriores a 1531 relativas a Marrocos [Documents from the royal chancelleries before 1531 concerning Morocco] (1915) , Capítulos do concelho de Elvas apresentados em Cortes [Chapters from the municipality of Elvas presented in Cortes] (1914) , D. Afonso V e a ordem de Torre e Espada [D.Afonso V and the o rder of the Tower and Sword] (1919) , and As cartas de criação da cidade concedidas à povoação portuguesa [The city charters granted to the portuguese people] (1914).

The work on this application was submitted in February 1920 and finalised the following month. In the favourable opinion that led to his admission, the signatures of Gama Barros and Leite de Vasconcelos, who had already appeared in the opinion for corresponding member , were reiterated and were joined by Júlio de Vilhena and Francisco Maria Esteves Pereira. All unanimously pointed out Pedro de Azevedo ’ s ‘solid palaeographic knowledge’ and his ‘no less solid historical knowledge’.

Within the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa [Lisbon Academy of Sciences] , Pedro de Azevedo held various positions: he was appointed a member of the administrative council in 1921 , elected vice-president of the Class of Humanities in 1922 , and, in the meantime, chosen as S ecretary for th at same class – a post he still held in 1928, when he died. Before that, on the recommendation of Lopes de Mendonça and Leite de Vasconcelos, he had occupied the position left open by Gonçalves Viana on the Committee in charge of the Dicionário da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa [Dictionary of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences] and ha d been a member of the B oard of the Portugaliae Monumenta Historica since 1915, with direct responsibility for editing the last two volumes of the collection.

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