EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT:
f - ,?® K REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-fourth day of July, in the forty-seventh
J55J-0* the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1822, WILLIAM P. C. BAR.
TON, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the tide of a Book, the right whereof
lie claims as Author in the words following, to wit: « A Flora of North America. Illustrated
by coloured figures, drawn from Nature. By William P. C. Barton, M. D. U. S. N. Professor
of Botany in the University of Pennsylvania, and one of the Physicians of the Philadelphia
Alms-House-Infirmary. Volume II.” In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United
Mates, intituled, An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of
Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times
therein mentioned.”—And also to the Act, entitled, “ An Act supplementary to an Act, en-
utied An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts,
and, Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mention.
toric^ai^iTthe^Prints^116^13 t^ere°^t0 Art3 designing, engraving, and etching his-
D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania '.
TO MATHEW CAREY, ESQ.
MEMBER
OF THE
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, $c.
My Dear Sir,
IT is gratifying to me to avail myself of the first opportunity
which has presented itself, of testifying in a public manner, my sentiments
of respect to my publisher, my friend—and, I may with
propriety add, to one of the patrons of American Botany, if the works
which you have enabled me to issue may be deemed any acquisition
to that science. I should not have engaged in them without your enterprise,
nor executed them without your aid.
Hitherto, while you had any interest in those publications, motives
of delicacy prevented me from a public declaration of my sentiments.
Now that you have retired from an arduous and respectable
business in which you have usefully, honourably, and I am happy to
add, profitably spent the larger portion of your life—I can pursue that
course towards you, which your well-earned character as a scholar,
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