EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO WIT:
J IT REMEMBERED, That on the thirty-first day of December, in the forty-eighth
f l Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1823, WILLIAM P. C. BARTON,
ol the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof
he 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. Volume III.” In conformity to the Act of the
Congress of the United States, 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 supplemen-
toy to anAct, entitled «An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies
ot Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times
therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of designing, engraving,
and etching historical and other Prints.” 6 e * 5
D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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TO THE HONOURABLE
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
My d e a r s i r ,
MY official relation to you as an officer of the service over which
you have been lately called to preside, would seem to render it a
very proper testimony of my respect, to inscribe any of my literary
labours to you. But, if this official connexion certainly warrants, as
an act of courtesy to my directing officer, this dedication, other considerations
of a personal nature present a ten-fold more powerful inducement,
and add a private and real gratification, to an act of public
respect.
Associated as we have been, in very early life, by the endearing
ties of scholars of the same institution, where an early intimacy with
each others characters, can be traced along with the delightful associations
of scholastic restraint and pastimes, we have found our-
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