12 REPORT OF NEW: JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901, the South Carolina 
Inter-State and West India Exposition in Charlestown 1901- 
1902, and the Universal Exposition at St. Louis in 1904. 
With the educational work from these expositions any one is 
enabled to make comparisons and see what advancement the New 
Jersey public schools have made during that time. 
At the coming Ter-Centennial Exposition to be held at James- 
town, Virginia, to commemorate the first English settlement, 
which is to open April 26th, 1907, the Department of Public 
Instruction proposes to make a Comparative Educational Ex- 
hibit, using some of the work from all of the expositions in 
which New Jersey has been represented. We think New Jersey 
is the only State that can make such an exhibit, as she alone has 
preserved. her educational material. The exhibit will show the 
advancement New Jersey has made in her educational advance- 
ment in the past thirty-one years. 
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
The geological specimens of the Museum, collected by the 
State Geological Survey, were not materially increased during 
the year. Under the direction of the State Geologist much has 
been accomplished toward making the material more accessible 
for reference. The minerals and rocks have been numbered, and 
the labels entered in a permanent accession book. , Index cards 
have also been prepared for many specimens. Some progress has 
been made with the work on paleontological material, but it will 
be some time before all the collections are properly classified. 
When the work is completed there will be a list of all specimens 
arranged numerically in a book, and a card-index arranged by 
subjects and localities. A permanent label-number in paint has 
been placed on each specimen so there is no chance of the speci- 
mens becoming valueless if the label should be lost. 
Three new cases were received during the year, thus replacing 
the older ones which have been in use since 1876. These were 
discarded by the necessity for more storage-room, which they 
did not furnish. This. change of cases gave an opportunity to 
