Southern District of If ew-York, St. 



BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the fifth day of February, A. D. 1828, in the fifty- 

 second year of the Independence of the United States of America, William Cooper, (in 

 the name and on the behalf of " the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York,") of the said 

 District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof lie claims as pro- 

 prietor, in the words following, to wit : 



" Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York. Vol. II." 

 In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Actforthe 

 encouragement of Learning, by securinsthe copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors 

 and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an Act, 

 entitled " an Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act lor the encouragemei t of Learn, 

 ing, by securing 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." 



FRED. J. BETTS, 

 Clerk of the Southern District of If en- York. 



