2i8 The Franklin Bi-centennial 



After God had carried us safe to New England 



And wee had builded our houses 

 Provided necessaries for our livelihood 

 Reard convenient places for Gods worship 



And settled the civill government 

 One of the next things we longed for 

 And looked after was to advance learning 



And perpetuate it to posterity 



These two Societies of Scholars being thus bound 

 together by a common interest in the person of Frank- 

 lin, and by a common devotion to the cause he served, 

 the University now presents its hearty felicitations to the 

 American Philosophical Society and bespeaks for it con- 

 tinued prosperity in the fulfilment of its high purpose. 

 Given in Cambridge, on the sixteenth day of April, 

 in the year nineteen hundred and six. 



The President and Fellows 

 (Seal) of Harvard College 



BY Jerome Davis Greene, 



Secretary. 



