Benjamin Franklin

Abstract

On the evening of Tuesday, the 29th of January 1957, Mr Eldred D. Kuppinger, United States Consul General in Edinburgh, presented the Franklin Commemorative Medal to the Society on behalf of The Congress of the United States of America. The ceremony took place in the Society’s premises at 7 Melbourne Place where the Senior President, Mr T. Ramsay McCall, received the medal on behalf of the Royal Medical Society.