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of building stones, clays and sands, of limestone and marl, gypsum and 

 brine and rock salt, iron ores, shale, graphite, feldspar, quartz, garnet and 

 talc. The petroleum product of the State is represented as well as its 

 world-famous mineral waters. It has erected an obelisk showing the 

 whole series of its geological formations, and it has sent from the State 

 museum a scientific collection of minerals, the result of years of careful 

 selection and of the highest educational value. To the botanical exhibit 

 it has contributed a rare collection of edible and poisonous fungi, and to 

 the zoological exhibit that unique specimen known as the Cohoes masto- 

 don and a collection of the land and fresh-water shells and of the mam- 

 mals of the State. For an illustration of the aboriginal life of the 

 continent, New York has sent representatives of the six tribes of the 

 Iroquois confederacy with their " long house," wigwams, canoes and charac- 

 teristic occupations, customs and ceremonies. The physical contour of 

 the State is shown in the Mining Building in a superb relief map, and its 

 canal system is delineated on another relief map in the Transportation 

 Building. In the same section is the illustrative material showing the rail- 

 road system of the State in all its ramifications. By land and water New 

 York remains what nature has made it — the gateway of the continent. 



One-seventh of the entire space devoted to educational exhibits in the 

 department of liberal arts is occupied by New York. At its entrance 

 hangs a map which indicates the reason of this proud pre-eminence, for on 

 it may be found marked the location and grade of every school and col- 

 lege in the State figured by dots, which are as the stars of the heaven for 

 multitude. From the kindergarten to the university the whole scheme of 

 education is represented here. There are specimens of the simplest kind 

 of manual training, and examples of the highest forms of intellectual 

 exercise. The school work is classified grade by grade, and shows in suc- 

 cessive groups the nature, appliances and results of the system by which 

 the State preserves its citizenship from the blight of illiteracy. The 

 growth and development of the school system of the State for the last 

 twenty-five years may be studied in statistical charts, and, from a com- 

 plete collection of text books to the phonographic reproduction of musical 

 work, no detail has been omitted by which the world may judge of the 

 value of New York's contribution to the education of the people of the 

 United States. The business colleges of the State make a good showing, 

 and there is a fine collective exhibit of the New York city art schools, the 

 Art Students' League, and other institutions of similar scope. Conspicu- 

 ous among the exhibits of schools devoted to manual and technological 

 instruction is that of the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, and the unique 

 product known as the Chautauqua system of education is amply and ably 



