Illustrations xix 



The Franklin Medal Facing Page 97. 



Designed by Louis and Augustus St. Gaudens. 



This Medal was struck in accordance with the fol- 

 lowing Act of Congress, approved April 27, 1904. 



" To enable the Secretary of State to have struck 

 a medal to commemorate the two hundredth anni- 

 versary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, for dis- 

 tribution in connection with the occurrence of the 

 bicentennial anniversary of his birth, on the seven- 

 teenth day of January, nineteen hundred and six, 

 one single impression on gold to be presented, under 

 the direction of the President of the United States, 

 to the Republic of France, and one hundred and fifty 

 impressions on bronze, of which one hundred shall 

 be distributed as may be directed by the President of 

 the United States, and fifty shall be for the use of the 

 American Philosophical Society, held at Philadel- 

 phia, for promoting useful knowledge, founded by 

 Franklin, five thousand dollars." 



