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With the liberal allowance made by the World's Columbian 

 board of managers, a large amount of material was brought 

 together, which formed an attractive exhibit, and having been 

 brought back to Albany and deposited in the State Museum, 

 formed the nucleus of the Pan-American exhibit of mineral 

 resources. As, however, mineral industries vary from year to 

 year, it was necessary, in preparing for a mineral exhibit at the 

 Pan-American Exposition, to do a large amount of work in order 

 to fill the various gaps in the mineral collections. 



The other divisions of the scientific exhibit were contributed 

 by the state paleontologist, the state botanist and the state ento 

 mologist, who, with comparatively small sums of money, were 

 able to gather together a large amount of valuable material and 

 make attractive and instructive exhibits. The details of these 

 exhibits are discussed in the reports of these officers. While 

 the paleontologic, botanic and entomologic exhibits were in 

 charge of the officers of the museum above mentioned, the ex- 

 hibit of mineral resources was prepared under the immediate 

 supervision of the director of the scientific exhibit. 



In the detailed work of gathering the material together, in 

 the labor of installation and in the supervision of the exhibit 

 during the period of the exposition, the director has been most 

 efficiently aided by his assistant, Mr Arthur L. Parsons, to whom 

 cordial acknowledgments are made. 



All the material in this exhibit was from localities within 

 the State. The purpose of the exhibit was to illustrate only 

 such materials as are at present of economic importance, or 

 such as show a strong probability of becoming important in the 

 near future. A large part of the material was collected be- 

 tween October 1900 and March 1901. 



Though New York does not rank high as a metal-mining state, 

 its nonmetalliferous mineral products are of great value. The 

 clay-working industry alone in 1900 amounted to $7,660,606. 

 The product of the quarries of building stone is second in im- 

 portance and amounted to $4,039,102, making New York third in 

 the Union in the value of its stone products. The salt industry 



