236 The Franklin Bi-centennial 



THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND 



SCIENCES 



To THE 



American Philosophical Society 



A greeting from the 



American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



On this memorable day, when the oldest learned so- 

 ciety in the United States is celebrating with due honor 

 the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of her illus- 

 trious Founder, her next younger sister, The American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, feels pride and pleas- 

 ure in offering to her most respectful congratula- 

 tions and most affectionate greetings. Our delegates 

 are in doubt whether they should congratulate the 

 Philosophical Society more heartily on her venerable 

 age and her distinguished service of one hundred 

 and sixty-three years in the cause of learning, or 

 on the vigorous activity in which she now appears 

 before them "flourishing in an immortal youth." 

 In her present freshness we see the perennial youth of 

 her great Founder, who was never more thoroughly alive 

 and never more devotedly enshrined in the hearts of his 

 countrymen than he is on this two-hundredth anniversary 



