REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 11 
THE NEW SHOW CABINETS. 
During the year the question of new cases for the geological 
specimens, which shall at the same time give adequate space for 
the display of choice specimens, ample storage room for dupli- 
cate material and be artistic in outline and general effect, has 
received much study. The model finally adopted consists of 
three parts—a vertical case with glass sides and ends, 2 feet high, 
1 foot wide and 4% feet long, with a plate-glass shelf; two 
desk cases, back to back and supporting the vertical case, and 
measuring 4% feet by 2% feet, furnish additional display space. 
Below each desk case are three compartments, with shelves and 
drawers, each compartment having space for twelve drawers. 
Three such units giving 74 sq. ft. of display space, 648 sq. ft. of 
storage space and occupying 63 sq. ft. of floor space, have been 
made and six more have been ordered. 
NEW JERSEY HAS BEEN NOTED FOR ITS FISH. 
The vocation of fishing has been followed for generations, as 
far back as the history of the State has any record; in fact, it 
was a happy hunting and fishing grounds for the Indians long 
before it was known to the white man. 
It would seem, if the following be true, and Mr. Wootton 
personally informed the writer that it was true, that New Jer- 
sey was inhabited many thousand years‘:ago. Several years ago 
Mr. Wootton’s men, when digging clay from the pit near Egg 
Harbor City, in Atlantic county, N. J., found at the bottom of 
the pit, some ten or twelve feet under the surface, on the sand, 
an earthen pot or kettle, and by its side what seemed to be 
burned pieces of wood. This same kettle is now in the possession 
of Mr. Wootton. 
Along the coast huge piles of oyster and clam shells are 
found where the red men held their feasts, and in these mounds 
numerous fish bones, arrow heads and other relics are found. 
