lo REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



The Ackerman Gift. 



The collection of Continental paper money, presented to the 

 State Museum by Acting Governor Ernest R. Ackerman, during 

 the past year, is one of the most valuable that the Museum has 

 acquired up to this time. 



This gift is best described in the Trenton Evening Times, of 

 June 5th, 191 1, in the following: 



Acting Governor Ackerman Gives Continental Money Collection 

 TO THE State 



Neiv Jersey's Museum, Already the Depository of Wealth of Material of 

 Historic Value, is Enriched by Generosity of the Senate President — Gift 

 Highly Praised by Curator Morse and Others. 



Through the generosity of Acting Governor Ernest R. Ackerman, the New 

 Jersey State Museum, already the depository of a wealth of material of his- 

 toric and economic value, is to be enriched by a splendid collection of Conti- 

 nental paper money. Acting Governor Ackerman has presented the collection 

 to the Museum and Curator S. R. Morse has accepted it for the State. 



The collection consists of no pieces and is one of the finest in the world, 

 as it is complete in every detail as issued to the people, with one exception. 

 It lacks the six dollar note of the tenth issue, dated Philadelphia, September 

 26th, 1778. This, Mr. Ackerman still hopes to obtain and place with the col- 

 lection. The collection will be mounted in suitable frames for proper display 

 in the Museum and will be known as the Ackerman Currency Collection. 



This collection was formed by the late Harmon A. Chambers, of Phila- 

 delphia, a collector of notes, who gave a greater part of more than eighty 

 odd years of his life to the collection of paper money, autograph letters and 

 historical matters relating to Pennsylvania. This set, all in fine condition, 

 was the one Mr. Chambers had selected as his best. Acting Governor Acker- 

 man obtained the set some years ago when the Chambers collections were 

 disposed of. Mr. Ackerman has added many choice notes to his collection 

 from the Chambers sale. 



Acting Governor Ackerman has long been known as one of the most noted 

 living philatelists. His collection of postage stamps of the United States and 

 various foreign countries is superb. While he has long been known as a 

 famous collector of stamps, few of his friends knew that he was also a 

 collector of coins and paper money. 



Curator Morse said to-day that the value of this collection as an educational 

 exhibit is beyond comprehension, and the State was indeed very fortunate in 

 obtaining it. He declared the gift was another demonstration of the liberality 

 of New Jersey citizens and their desire to make the State Museum one of 

 the finest in the country. 



Continuing Mr. Morse insisted that the State should no longer delay mak- 

 ing provision for the increased museum accommodations that the great and 



