272 The Franklin Bi-centennial 



THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Royal Meteorological Society 



Princes Mansions, 



70, Victoria Street, 



S. W. 



April 3, 1906. 



To The President of the Philosophical Society 



OF America. 

 Sir: 



The agreeable duty falls to me of tendering to you, on 

 behalf of the Council and Fellows of the Royal Meteor- 

 ological Society of London our cordial thanks for the 

 invitation received to participate in the proceedings of 

 your time-honored Society on the celebration of the 

 birth of its illustrious founder, Benjamin Franklin. 



Sir George Darwin, whom we have asked to be our 

 representative on this historic occasion, will convey to 

 you and the members of the Philosophical Society our 

 hearty appreciation of the tribute you are justly paying 

 to the memory of one, to whom Science is so greatly 

 indebted, and to whom we ourselves owe much for his 

 researches in various branches of Meteorology. 



It would have been a source of much gratification to 

 the great Franklin could he have survived to witness 



