314 New Yoek at the World's Columbian Exposition. 



report to the superintendent is under the department of horticulture, 

 page 305. To the farmer and the epicure, the physician and the student, 

 it will be 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, 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. It was the opin- 

 ion of more than one foreign judge that no other similar exhibit com- 

 pared with that of New York in the careful arrangement of specimens, 

 attention to detail and neat methods of display. In no one group was 

 this careful arrangement more evident than in that of the land and 

 fresh water shells prepared by the assistant zoologist, Mr. William B. 

 Marshall. These specimens were almost all owned by the museum, 

 but a few necessary additions were purchased by the State Board of 

 Managers. A series of the mammals of New York State was also 

 exhibited. The report of the assistant zoologist will be found under 

 the department of ethnology, page 503. 



Mineral Exhibit. 



The mineral exhibit was the most extensive of the exhibits made by 

 the New York State Museum and consisted of two collections — 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 for many years and is of great educational value. It 

 contains moreover many large and particularly fine specimens which 

 cannot be duplicated. Mr. Lea M. Luquer, assistant in mineralogy at 

 Columbia College, was placed in charge of the selection, examination, 

 cataloguing and arrangement of the minerals of the museum which 

 formed this very beautiful exhibit. Mr. Luquer's report is appended, 

 page 319. The mining exhibit was almost entirely collected for the 

 "World's Columbian Exposition, and represents as fully as possible the 

 mineral resources of New York State. Although New York does not 

 rank high as a mining State, its mineral products are of great value. 

 The brick industry alone amounts to $8,500,000 a year. The product 

 of its quarries of building stone is enormous, although an accurate state- 

 ment of its annual value cannot yet be made. The salt industry amounts 

 to over $1,500,000 a year. A large amount of capital is invested in the 

 iron industry of New York, but the present state of the iron market 

 has closed many of the mines. The clay industries of the State, the 

 brick and pottery works, have now become an important source of 

 income to many residents of New York and are the fountain head 

 of much inter-State commerce. Early in his ofiicial life in Albany the 

 assistant director of the museum recognized the propriety of a bulletin 

 of reliable information on the subject of the clay industry, and secured 

 the services of Mr. Heinrich Eies, Ph. B., who has visited all the works 

 of tlie State manufacturing articles from this material, and has pre- 

 pared a full and very valuable bulletin upon the clays of New York. 

 It is expected this will soon be published. An extract from this 



