
The Curator’s Report. 
In presenting the report of the New Jersey State Museum for 
1905 we have decided to devote the major part of it to ““The Fish 
of New Jersey.” We do not find any reference work on this 
subject which is just what is needed for the Museum, or the gen- 
eral public. There have been several reports containing lists of 
the fish of New Jersey published by the Geological Survey of the 
State, notably one by Dr. C. C. Abbott, in Cook’s Geology of 
New Jersey, 1868, and the other by Dr. Julian Nelson, in Vol. 
11 of the Final Report, 1890, but neither of these was illus- 
trated. The later work has given more detailed information re- 
garding the occurrence of species in New Jersey waters. 
The Commission feel that it has been fortunate in procuring 
the services of Mr. Henry W. Fowler, of the Philadelphia Acad- 
emy of Natural Sciences, to prepare this part of the report. 
Mr. Fowler has been studying the fish of New Jersey for the 
past five years, and has added much important information to 
this subject during those years. We feel that this report will © 
be not only a credit to the Commission of the New Jersey 
State Museum, but also to the State and to Mr. Fowler. It will 
contain about 200 illustrations. 
Since our last Report, the Exhibits from St. Louis have been 
returned to us, and nearly all have been set up in the Museum in 
the State House, thus filling every available space. 
The Educational Exhibit was placed in the rooms and corridors 
formerly containing the Educational Exhibit from Chicago, Buf- 
falo and Charleston Expositions. The former Exhibits, with what 
we have of the Educational Exhibits from the Philadelphia Cen- 
tennial and the New Orleans Expositions, have been condensed 
and filed in the Museum for comparison. 
The other St. Louis Exhibits have been placed in the new 
Exposition Hall. 
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