mSTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT : 



District Clerk's Office. 



BE it remembered. That on ths third Jay of February, A. D. 1814, and in Che thirty- 

 eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, BRADFORD nd 

 READ, of the saiil district have deposired in this office the title of a book, tae light 

 whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit : 



"An INTRODUCTION to Phy5iolof;icaI and Systematicd BOTANY. By JAMES 

 EDWARD SMITH. iVI.D. F R. S he he. President of the Linnsean Society. "Con- 

 sider the lilies of the field how th.y grow." First American, from the secord English 

 edition; with Notes, by JArOB BIGELOW, M.D." 



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, ami books, to the 

 authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned ;" ai'd also 

 to an act, entitled, " An act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encour- 

 agement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors 

 and propristors 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." 



WIIIIAM"? <;H^\V S^^lerk of the District 

 WILLIAM S. SHAW. ^ of Mauachusetts. 



PRINTED BY MLNROE & FKANCIS, 

 NO. 4, CORNHILl., 



