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District of Massachusetts, to wit : 
District Clerk’s office. 
Be it remembered, that on the eighteenth day of October, A. D. 1817, 
and in the forty second year of the independence of the United States of Ameri- 
ca, Jacob Bigelow, M. D. of the said district, has deposited in this office the 
title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words follow- 
ing’, Vize 
- Be American Medical Botany, being a collection of the native medicinal 
plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical 
analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured 
engravings. By Jacos Bieztow, M. D. Rumford Professor and Lecturer on 
Materia Medica and Botany in Harvard University. Vol. 1.” 
In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, entitled 
*“ 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 an act, entitled, * An act supplemen- 
tary to an act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by secur- 
ing the copies of 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.” eS 
JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the district of Massachusetts. 
