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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW- YORK, «t. 



bK IT REMEMBERED, that on the 16th day of September, in 

 the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of Amer- 

 ica, Stacy H. Collins, of the said District, hath deposited in this 

 office the title of a hook, the right whereof he claims, as Proprietor, 

 in the words following, to wit : 



"A Compendium of the Flora of the Northern and Middle States. 

 Containing Generic and Specific Descriptions of all the Plants, exclu- 

 sive of the Cryptogamia, hitherto found in the United States, north of 

 the Potomac. By John Torrey, M.D. Professor of Chemistry in the 

 West-Point Military Academy, President of the Lyceum of Natural 

 History of New- York, Member of the Phj siographical Society of Lund, 

 SVeden, of the vVerncrian Society of Edinburgh, &c." 



In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United Stales, entitled 

 i' An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing tiie copies 

 of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors r.nd proprietors of such 

 copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to an Act, 

 entitled, "An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for 

 the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, 

 t'h&rts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, 

 during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof 

 10 the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other 

 prints.*' 



JAMES DILL, 

 Ghrh of the Southern District of Ntto-Yotk. 



