286 The Franklin Bi-Centennial 



THE PHYSICAL SECTION OF THE RUSSIAN 

 PHYSICO-CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



To THE American Philosophical Society 



HELD AT Philadelphia 



FOR Promoting Useful Knowledge. 



The Physical Section of the Russian Physico-Chemical 

 Society congratulates the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety on the occasion of the Two Hundredth Anniversary 

 of the birth of Benjamin Franklin. 



That name reminds every one of us of the luminous 

 kingdom of Ideals and Understanding. 



The Russian children in one of their earliest books 

 read the biography of B. Franklin as a paragon of vir- 

 tue; the school boys learn by the example of Franklin 

 how the brave mind overcomes the formidable appear- 

 ances of nature by its fundamental investigations; the 

 image of the famous leader of the great American peo- 

 ple rises before the citizens of Great Russia at the time 

 of her new stage of the liberating evolution. 



The Meeting of April of the Physical Section will be 

 consecrated to the researches of Benjamin Franklin as 



