REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 13 
change the material on exhibition, and in some instances to sub- 
stitute more desirable specimens. Numerous small colored maps 
of the State, showing the location of the material on exhibition, 
have been placed in each case. The display of clay, which re- 
ceived the Gold Medal at the St. Louis Exposition, has been in- 
stalled. A series of specimens designed to illustrate the pro- 
cesses of separating and concentrating the zinc ore, mined at 
Franklin Furnace, has been arranged. A similar set of speci- 
mens shows the successive steps in the magnetic separation of 
the iron ores. 
A number of cretaceous fossils were withdrawn from exhibi- 
tion for preparation and study, but with the completion of the 
report upon these forms, which is in preparation under the direc- 
tion of the State Geologist, these specimens and many others 
will be available for the Museum. 
OBJECT OF THE MUSEUM. 
The Commission of the State Museum is trying to make it one 
of the factors in the line of education, and are in hope at no dis- 
tant date to see the teachers and others of the State bring their 
pupils and friends to it for study as well as pleasure. 
At the present time many students are availing themselves of 
the opportunity of visiting the Museum to study its many speci- 
mens. ‘This is especially the case with the students of the State 
schools, the schools in and near Trenton, and some from Penn- 
sylvania. We feel that it would be very profitable if excursions 
for the children and teachers could be taken to the State House to 
visit and study the Museum with its many educational advan- 
tages. No doubt arrangements can be made with the railroads 
and trolleys for reasonable terms. Besides the Museum there 
are many other things of interest to be seen, not only in the 
State House and other State institutions in the city of Trenton, 
but many historical and local features of interest. 
The number of visitors has greatly increased during the last 
year. From the number that have registered during the time 
we have had our register opened, it is estimated that more than 
