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Eastern Disti'lct of Pennsylvania, to wit: 



Be it remembered, that on the ninth day of February, in the fifty-fifth year of 

 the independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1831, John Grigg, of the 

 said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right wheBeof he 

 claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: 



An Elementary Treatise on Midwifery: or Principles of Tokology and Embry- 

 ology. By Alf. A. L. M. Velpeau, M.D. &c. &c. Translated from the French 

 by Charles D. Meigs, M.D. Member of the American Philosophical Society; 

 Lecturer on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children, &c. &c. 



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 men- 

 tioned;" and also to the act, entitled, "an act supplementary to an act, entitled, 

 ' an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing tlie 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." 



D. CALDWELL, 

 Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 



Philadelphia: 



T. K. & P. G. Collins, Printers, 



No. 1 Lodge Alley. 



