266 The Franklin Bi-centennial 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



Smithsonian Institution 



Presiding officer 



ex-officio 



The President of the United States 



Chancellor 

 The Chief Justice of the United States 



Washington, April 13, 1906. 

 United States National Museum 

 International Exchanges 

 Bureau of Ethnology 

 National Zoological Park 

 Astrophysical Observatory 



The Smithsonian Institution 



" for the increase and diffusion of knowledge 



among men " 



TO THE American Philosophical Society 



" FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE " 



GREETING 



On the two hundredth anniversary of the 



birth of Benjamin Franklin, Founder and first 



President of the American Philosophical Society the 



