EXCERPT FROM THE REGISTRY 



of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 



of the twenty-eighth of June, 1 768. 



MESSIEURS DE JUSSIEU & FOUGEROUX DE BONDAROY, having been assigned to examine 

 a work of M. Duhamel entitled: Treatise on Fruit Trees, including their Pictures, 

 Descriptions, Cultivation, &c. and having completed their report on it, the Academy has 

 deemed this work worthy of publication. In recognition thereof, I have hereby signed this 

 Certificate. Paris, June 28, 1 768. 



GRANDJEAN DE FOUCHY, Permanent Secretary of 

 the Royal Academy of Sciences. 



AUTHORIZATION OF THE KING. 



LOUIS by the grace of God, King of France & of Navarre: To our beloved & faithful Counsellors, the 

 Keepers of our Courts of Justice, Court of the Earl Marshal, Chief Counsel, Provost-marshal of Paris, 

 Bailiffs, Seneschals, their Civil Magistrates, & to others of our Judicial Officers to whom it may concern, 

 GREETINGS. Our well-beloved MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES of our fine City of 

 Paris have informed us of their need of Our Letters of Authorization for the printing of their Works. THESE 

 REASONS MOVING US THEREUNTO, and wishing to deal favorably with the Petitioners, We have 

 authorized, and do now authorize, them by these Presents to have printed, by whichever Printer they will 

 wish choose, all of the Research or daily Observations, or annual Reports of all of the proceedings of the 

 the Assemblies of the said Royal Academy of Sciences, the Works, Treatises, or Memoirs of each of its 

 Individual Members, & generally everything that the said Academy will wish to publish; after having 

 examined the said Works, & finding them worthy of being printed in such volumes, format, margins, 

 characters, conjointly or separately, & as often as it will seem right to them, & to have them sold & 

 distributed across our entire Kingdom, during a period of twenty consecutive years counting from the date 

 of these Presents. Nevertheless, some of it may be printed by others not belonging to the said Academy, 

 outside of the conditions for the Works specified above. We hereby prohibit all manner of persons, 

 whatever their rank & station, from importing a foreign edition to any location under our dominion. We 

 likewise prohibit all Booksellers & Printers from printing or causing to be printed, selling or causing to be 

 sold & distributed, the said Works, in whole or in part, & to make no translations or excerpts of them for 

 any reason whatever without the express permission in writing of the said Petitioners, or of those who will 

 have been granted rights by them, under penalty of confiscation of the counterfeit Copies and a fine of three 

 thousand pounds against each offender, of which one third will go to Us, one third to the Central Hospital 

 of Paris, & the other third to the said Petitioners or to those who will have been granted the rights on their 

 behalf, & all expenses, damages, & interest, upon condition that these Presents will be fully registered in 

 the Registry of the Society of Booksellers & printers of Paris within three months 



