DISTRICT OF MAINE, TO WIT : 



DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE. 



IRIS IT "REIYIISIYIBEHESD. Tnat on t 06 eleventh day of May, A. D. 



JD 1829, and in the fifty-third year of the independence of the United States of 

 America, Messrs. Shirley & Hyde, of said Dist-ict, have deposited in this office 

 the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words fol- 

 lowing, to wit : 



Conversations on the Animal Economy, designed for the instruction of Youth, 

 and the perusal of general readers. By Isaac Ray, M. D In explaining these 

 things, I esteem myself as composing a solemn hymn to the great Architect of 

 our bodily frame, in which, I think, there is more true piety, than in sacrificing 

 hecatombs of oxen, or in burning the most costly perfumes. Galen. Portland, 

 published by Shirley <fe Hyde, 1829. 



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 there- 

 in 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, 

 charts and books, t the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times 

 therein mentioned ; and for extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing-, 

 engraving, and etching historical and other prints." 



J. MUSSEY. Clerk of the District of Maine. 



A true epy as of record, 



Attest, J. MUSSEY, Clerk D. C. of Maine 



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