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* BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the sixteenth day of February, in the forty- 

 second year of the Independence of the United States of America, Kirk & Mercein, 

 of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right where- 

 of they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit ; 



" Essay on the Theory of the Earth. By M. Cuvier, Perpetual Secretary of the 

 French Institute, Professor and Administrator of the Museum of Natural History, 

 &c. &c. With Mineralogical Notes, and an Account of Cuvier's Geological Disco- 

 veries, by Professor Jameson. To which are now added, Observations on the 

 Geology of North America ; illustrated by the Description of various Organic Re- 

 mains, found in that part of the world. By Samuel L. Mitchill, Botan. Mineral, et 

 Zoolog. in Umrers. Nov. Eborac. Prof. &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 time 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, 

 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, en- 

 graving, and etching historical and other prints." 



JAMES DILL, 

 Clerk of the Southern District of Now- York. 



