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^***«.** BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the third day of 

 ^^^EAL. * A^iLin the forty -second year of the Independence of 



J\i^ijyfrif»i»^ th^lJnTted States of America, A. D. 1818, Thomas Nut- 

 V. ^B^of the^s*aia-«ijs^WQt, has deposited in this office the title of a 

 ^J^^Wkj'^he righ't whereof he claims as author, in the words foUow- 

 ^ mg-, to wit: 



" The Genera of North American Plants, and a Catalogue of 

 the Species to the year 1817. By Thomas Nuttall, F. L. S. 

 fellow of the American Philosophical Society, and of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, &c." 

 In conformity to an act of the congress of the United States, 

 intitled, "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing 

 the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprie- 

 tors of ^uch copies during the times therein nientloned,"-fAnd 



ementary to an act, enticed 



to the act,»entitl£d ** ar^ct su 

 ^giWact for th@#encmiragei^nit ot isf^.-i.^, l,j ^^ 

 ^|Dp^^vm^EJ> charts, and book^, to thfe^thors and 

 suth c&]5Tes during the fcinjes tlierein meiptioned,"'! 



also^o 



VojesoVv 



nhe 

 in 



pet for th@#encmiragei^i>t of il^ning, by securing the co- 

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^ter^inj \ 

 enefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etcIT 

 'storical and other prints." 



D. CALDWELL, 



Clerk of the District of Pennsvivania. 



