i6 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



to take a position in New York city, Dr. Charles J. Baxter was 

 appointed to the position of State Superintendent by Governor 

 Griggs on March 24th, 1896, and was at once confirmed by the 

 Senate. 



Dr. Baxter was elected President of the New Jersey State 

 Museum Commission at its first meeting, and has held that ofiice 

 up to July I St, 191 1, when he went out of of^ce as the State 

 Superintendent by act of the Legislature, which act abolished 

 the office of State Superintendent, and created a new depart- 

 ment with a Commissioner of Education at the head, and a new 

 State Board of Education of eight members instead of twenty, 

 as before. 



As President of the New Jersey State Museum Commission, 

 Mr. Baxter took an active part in making the Museum a success, 

 and he was always a very strong advocate of it. Mr. Baxter 

 will be greatly missed. ,Dr. Calvin Kendall, the new Commis- 

 sioner of Education, was elected President of the Museum Com- 

 mission at its last meeting, and he is deeply interested in all 

 matters that advance the cause of education. 



List of Publications Received for the Museum Library. 



We beg to acknowledge receipt of the following publications : 



Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institute for 1910. 



Ortmann on the Crawfishes of the State of Pennsylvania. 



University of California Bulletin, Third Series, Vol. 3, No. 8. 



The Oologist, No. 286. 



American Museum Journal, Vol. 11, No. 5. 



Bulletin of the Charleston Museum, Vol. 7, No. 5. 



Zoological Society Bulletin, New York, No. 45. 



Camden Board of Trade Journal, Vol. i, No. 5. 



New York Zoological Bulletin, No. 47. 



American Museum Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4. 



Zeitschrift fur Hochschulpadagogil. 



The Oologist, No. 285. 



Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art, Vol. 5, No. 2. 



Bulletin of the Charleston Museum, Vol. 7, No. 4. 



Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum for April. 



The Ecological Succession of Birds. 



The Wild Life Call. 



