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Eastern Distinct of Pennsylvania, to -wit .• 



BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the ninth day of July, in 

 the forty-third year of the Independence of the United States 

 of America, A. D. 1818, William P. C. Barton, M. D. of the 

 said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, 

 the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, 

 to wit : 



<l Compendium Flora Philadelphicce : Containing- a description of 

 the Indigenous and Naturalized Plants found ivithin a circidt of 

 ten miles around Philadelphia. By William P. C. Barton, J\i. D. 

 Surgeon in tlie U. States' Navy, and of the Naval Hospital at 

 PhilatlelpMa ; and Professor of Botany in the University of 

 Pennsylvania. In two volumes." 



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 au- 

 thors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein 

 mentioned;" and also to the act entitled, "An Act supplemen- 

 tary to an act entitled ' An Act for the encouragement of learn- 

 ing, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the 

 authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times there- 

 in 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 Pennsylva?iia. 



