lo REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



The demand for some of our reports in several of the State 

 Libraries has been so great that we have supphed them with 

 several copies of the same report. 



We have been assured by mam^ superintendents and teachers 

 that the reports have awakened a great interest on the subjects 

 of which they treat. 



VISITORS, 



There has been a decided increase in the number of visitors 

 in the past year at the museum. A large number. of the school 

 teachers have brought their classes to see and study the specimens 

 of natural history. It is still visited by many of the Normal and 

 Model School students for study of the many specimens. It is 

 considered a great help to have such an institution tO' visit and 

 study. 



THE COLLECTIONS. 



The collections of New Jersey minerals is one of the best and 

 most complete in the State, containing a great many speci- 

 mens. We have had the mnierals re-arranged and labeled, which 

 makes it much more interesting and beneficial to the student. 



The collection of birds of New Jersey is quite extensive. 

 There are only a very few of the specimens that we do not have, 

 and that number is getting smaller very fast. W^e hope to have 

 nearly all by another year. 



We have added several new specimens to the Mammal collec- 

 tion until there are only a very few species th^t are not repre- 

 sented bv a specimen. One of the recent additions is a very 

 young deer, which was only five days old when it died. We 

 were able to get this specimen through the courtesy of the Chair- 

 man of the Fish and Game Commission of the State of Maine, 

 as we did several groups of beavers and other specimens. This 

 Commission has always been very kind to New Jersey, which 

 is greatly appreciated by the management of the ^Museum. 



MORE ROOM NEEDED. 



We have urged the need of more room in several of our other 

 reports, but as yet do not see when we will get it. Last winter 



