Go Dr. Jacob ge NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twelfth day of May, in the forty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, WEBSTERS and SKINNERS, of the said district, have deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "A Manual of Botany for the Northern and Middle "States. Part I. Containing Generic Descriptions of the "Plants to the North of Virginia, with references to the "Natural Orders of Linnæus and Jussieu. Part II. Con taining Specific Descriptions of the Indigenous Plants, "which are well defined and established; and of the culti "vated Exotics. By Amos Eaton, A. M. Lecturer on Botany, Mineralogy and Chemistry; Corresponding Member "of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York. Second "edition, corrected and enlarged." 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 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, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.” RICHARD R. LANSING, Clerk of the N. District of New York. ZEPHANIAH SWIFT MOORE, D. D. PRESIDENT OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE, (MASS.) REVEREND CHESTER DEWEY, A. M. PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, EBENEZER KELLOGG, A. M. PROFESSOR OF LANGuages. The Science of Botany is indebted to you for its first introduction into the interior of the Northern States. And I am indebted to you for passport into the scientific world; after that protracted series of misfortunes, which sunk me to the lowest ebb of human misery. Permit me, therefore, TO INSCRIBE TO YOU THIS MANUAL, AS A TESTIMONY OF THAT GRATITUDE AND ESTEEM, WHICH IS DUE AND OF SUFFERING HUMANITY, YOUR GRATEFUL HUMBLE SERVANT, AMOS EATON. |