﻿New 
  York 
  State 
  Museum. 
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  many 
  interesting 
  discoveries 
  of 
  economic 
  value. 
  His 
  careful, 
  

   accurate 
  and 
  artistic 
  work 
  needs 
  no 
  words 
  of 
  praise 
  to 
  those 
  who 
  

   were 
  so 
  fortunate 
  as 
  to 
  examine 
  the 
  same. 
  To 
  the 
  farmer 
  and 
  

   epicure, 
  the 
  physician 
  and 
  the 
  student, 
  it 
  is 
  alike 
  interesting 
  and 
  

   valuable. 
  

  

  Could 
  Dr. 
  Lintner, 
  the 
  State 
  Entomologist, 
  have 
  had 
  the 
  

   strength 
  to 
  undertake 
  an 
  exhibit 
  in 
  his 
  department, 
  it 
  would 
  

   have 
  been 
  at 
  once 
  a 
  revelation 
  and 
  a 
  liberal 
  education 
  to 
  the 
  

   other 
  States. 
  Oar 
  own 
  knows 
  well 
  the 
  man 
  and 
  the 
  work 
  which 
  

   has 
  been 
  the 
  protection 
  of 
  the 
  farm 
  and 
  the 
  garden, 
  the 
  library 
  

   and 
  tJbe 
  parlor. 
  But 
  the 
  pressure 
  of 
  his 
  regular 
  work 
  was 
  so 
  

   great 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  reluctant 
  to 
  undertake 
  new 
  duties, 
  at 
  the 
  

   expense, 
  perhaps, 
  of 
  those 
  already 
  entered 
  upon, 
  and 
  therefore 
  

   decided 
  to 
  make 
  no 
  entomological 
  exhibit. 
  

  

  More 
  than 
  one 
  foreign 
  judge 
  was 
  so 
  complimentary 
  as 
  to 
  state 
  

   that 
  no 
  other 
  similar 
  exhibit 
  compared 
  with 
  that 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  

   in 
  the 
  careful 
  arrangement 
  of 
  specimens, 
  attention 
  to 
  detail, 
  and 
  

   neat 
  methods 
  of 
  display. 
  In 
  no 
  one 
  group 
  is 
  this 
  careful, 
  neat 
  

   and 
  even 
  artistic 
  arrangement 
  more 
  evident 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  land 
  and 
  

   fresh 
  water 
  shells, 
  prepared 
  by 
  the 
  Assistant 
  State 
  Zoologist, 
  

   Mr. 
  William 
  B. 
  Marshall. 
  , 
  The 
  specimens 
  were 
  almost 
  all 
  owned 
  

   by 
  the 
  State 
  Museum, 
  but 
  a 
  few 
  necessary 
  additions 
  were 
  bought 
  

   by 
  the 
  State 
  Board 
  of 
  Managers. 
  A 
  series 
  of 
  the 
  mammals 
  of 
  

   New 
  York 
  State 
  were 
  also 
  exhibited. 
  

  

  The 
  mineral 
  exhibit 
  was 
  the 
  most 
  extensive 
  of 
  the 
  exhibits 
  

   made 
  by 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  Museum, 
  and 
  consisted 
  of 
  two 
  col- 
  

   lections 
  ; 
  the 
  scientific 
  collection 
  of 
  minerals 
  in 
  the 
  west 
  gallery, 
  

   and 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  economic 
  minerals 
  in 
  the 
  Mining 
  Exhibit 
  on 
  

   the 
  main 
  floor. 
  The 
  former 
  has 
  accumulated 
  through 
  many 
  

   years 
  and 
  is 
  of 
  great 
  educational 
  value. 
  It 
  contains, 
  moreover, 
  

   many 
  large 
  and 
  particularly 
  fine 
  specimens 
  which 
  can 
  not 
  be 
  

   duplicated. 
  Mr. 
  Lea 
  M. 
  Luquer, 
  the 
  Assistant 
  in 
  Mineralogy 
  at 
  

   Columbia 
  College, 
  was 
  placed 
  in 
  charge 
  of 
  the 
  selection, 
  exami- 
  

   nation, 
  cataloguing 
  and 
  arrangement 
  of 
  the 
  minerals 
  of 
  the 
  

   Museum 
  which 
  formed 
  this 
  very 
  beautiful 
  exhibit. 
  

  

  The 
  mining 
  exhibit 
  was 
  almost 
  entirely 
  collected 
  for 
  the 
  

   World's 
  Columbian 
  Exposition, 
  and 
  represents, 
  as 
  fully 
  as 
  possi- 
  

   ble, 
  the 
  mining 
  resources 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  State, 
  Although 
  New 
  

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