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Show Franklin'a Many Honors Benjamin Franklin was honored by many organizations for his ability and accomplishments in various lines of activity. The British Eoyal society so-ciety awarded him the Copley gold medal, and Louis XV sent him his appreciation ; both Harvard and Tale conferred on him honorary degrees of M. A. ; he was elected a fellow of the Itoyal Society of London ; the College of William and Mary In Virginia Vir-ginia made him a M. A.; the Scottish Scot-tish university conferred a D. L. degree de-gree upon him ; he was elected a member of the Philosophical society Edinburgh ; Oxford conftrred the degree de-gree of D. C. L. ; he was elected president of the American Philosophical Philosoph-ical society for life; the Academy of Science of Padua, the Royal society of Paris, and the Medical society of London all elected him to membership. |