284 The Franklin Bi-centennial 



THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, 

 IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY, TOKYO 



(Translation) 



The College of Science, Imperial University, Tokyo, 

 feels very much honored by receiving your kind invita- 

 tion to participate in the Celebration to be held in Phila- 

 delphia in April of the present year on the occasion of 

 the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin 

 Franklin, the illustrious Founder of your Society and 

 one of the world's great men. We regret that circum- 

 stances prevent our sending a special delegate to repre- 

 sent us in the Celebration, but we desire to send at least 

 a few words of congratulation expressing the spirit and 

 great work of Franklin to the posterity. 

 We remain, Respectfully yours, 



K. MiTSUKURi, Ph.D., 

 Director of the College of Science, 

 Imperial University, Tokyo. 



To the American Philosophical Society, 

 Philadelphia, Penn., U. S. A. 



