REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 15 
We also need more cabinets for the other departments, but we 
have no room to place them. The State House Commission has 
never furnished any cabinets or other furniture for the Museum 
since its establishment, but nearly all of it has been received from 
“the expositions—that is cabinets and other furniture used at 
these expositions have been utilized, thus saving many thousands 
of dollars to the State. Nearly all of our furniture is good and 
modern. 
CARD SYSTEM. 
During the year we have had a complete card system made of 
_all the specimens in the several exhibits. This makes it an easy 
matter to locate any specimen one may wish to find. It has taken 
much careful study and work, but will enable great saving of 
time and labor. 
We have adopted for the birds, eggs and nests the numbers 
used by the American Ornithologists’ Union, and numbered 
them accordingly. 
NEW COLLECTIONS. 
Until the State Museum was established, only a few years ago, 
there was no place in the State where natural history and other 
specimens could be placed and exhibited, therefore many very 
valuable specimens left the State and found homes in other 
places. 
It is the desire of the Museum Commissioners to make the 
New Jersey State Museum truly a New Jersey State Museum, 
where in the future our citizens may have a place to deposit such 
specimens as may be of interest to our people. 
The Commissioners are anxious to receive such, and extend an 
invitation to all who can to make such donations to the Museum, 
and due credit will be given for the same to each contributor. 
Any person having specimens is invited to correspond with the 
Curator of the Museum on the subject. ‘Those making donations 
will be entitled to receive a copy of the annual report and other 
printed matter issued by the Museum. 
