20 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



m,als found in New Jersey. These groups are, as far as possible, 

 intended to represent the specimens in their natural surround- 

 ings, on the same plan as the birds are arranged. 



SOCIAI, ECONOMY. 



This exhibit was installed in the Social Economy Building. It 

 consists of 15 different State departments and State institutions, 

 as follows : 



Department of Labor and Statistics, Board of Health, Depart- 

 ment of Good Roads, State Museum, "How to Exterminate 

 Mosquitoes," Industrial School for Colored Youth at Borden- 

 town. State School for Boys at Jamesburg, State School for Girls 

 at Trenton, School for the Deaf, Trenton; State Institute for 

 Feeble-Minded Girls and Women at Vineland; State Institute 

 for Feeble-Minded Boys and Girls, Vineland; School of Indus- 

 trial Arts at Trenton, State Circulating Libraries, and Depart- 

 ment of Banking and Insurance. 



The exhibit of the Department of Labor and Statistics con- 

 sisted of large photographs, 33 in a New Jersey Exhibit cabinet 

 showing the betterment for the employes of some of the manu- 

 factures of the State; a full set of reports and 10,000 books for 

 free distribution explaining what is being done in the State for 

 the laboring classes. 



The Board of Health Exhibit consisted of illustrations and 

 descriptions showing what it is doing for the advancement of 

 health in the State. 



The Good Roads Exhibit has a large number of illustrations to 

 show the roads before and after their improvement was made; 

 samples of different materials used in the construction of the 

 road; reports explaining how they are constructed, the manner 

 of paying for them, what the State has contributed toward them, 

 etc. Several hundred bound books are for free distribution. The 

 maps show the roads that the State has made since it began to 

 appropriate money for this purpose. New Jersey was one of the 

 first to begin this great work and has spent many hundred thou- 



