TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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The Programme i 



List of Delegates 13 



Commemorative Addresses 



Franklin as Citizen and Philanthropist. 



By Horace Howard Furness .... 31 



Franklin as Printer and Philosopher. 



By Charles William Eliot, LL.D. . . 55 



Franklin as Statesman and Diplomatist. 



By Joseph Hodges Choate, LL.D., 

 D.C.L 71 



Presentation to France of the Gold Medal Au- 

 thorized by The Congress of the United 

 States. 



By The Honorable Elihu Root, Secre- 

 tary of State 97 



Reception of the Medal. 



By His Excellency, M. J. J. Jusserand, 



The French Ambassador 99 



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