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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW- YORK, ss. 



BE IT REMEMT!EREr>, Tnal on the 3d day of Januair, A. D. 1831, in the fifty-fifth year of the independence of the UniteJ 

 Stales of America, J. & J. riARPP.R, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof 

 they claim as Proprietors, in the words fnllo-.vin?, to wit ; 



'• The Book of Na'ure. By John Mason Goo<i, M.D. F.R.S. F.R.S.L. Mem. Am. j hil. Soc. and F.L.S. of Philadelphia. To whick 

 is now Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's Life." 



In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the Uni'ed States, entitled " An Act lor the encouragement of Learning, by securinc 

 (he copies of niaps, charts, and hooks, to the autliors and proprietors of such copies, during '.he times therein mentioned." AnS 

 also to an Act entitled, "An Act, supplenii-iilary to an Act, entitled an Act for 'he encouragement of Learning, by securing thtl 

 copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of sui h copies, during the times therein mentioned, and ex« 

 tenduQg the benefits thereof to the arts cf designing, engraving, and etching histoncal and othei piints." 



tREnERICK J. BETTS, 

 CUrk of the Southern District of New-TorK 



