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female and young with their native surroundings. These attract much atten¬ 
tion and are admired by all. Some of them are of the opossum, the skunks, 
the muskrats, young and nest, &c. 
The oyster exhibition, consisting of a tank representing a real oyster bed, 
with other specimens, shows the manner of raising, taking and marketing them. 
The big pool, forty feet across, filled with salt water, contains fish from the 
Jersey coast wrnters. This is one of the features of the World’s Fair. 
The insect exhibit, prepared by Professor John B. Smith, the State Ento¬ 
mologist, is pronounced the best of its kind ever made. It contains specimens 
of all the injurious insects and how to destroy them. It is being studied by 
experts from all parts of the world. The mosquito exhibit is the largest and 
excites the most interest. It is really wonderful and furnished a complete 
course of education in mosquito extermination. It shows thousands of the 
different kind of mosquitoes, the places in which they breed, the various stages 
of development, method of draining mosquito pest holes, samples of various 
small fish that feed on the mosquito larvae, and enlargements of mosquitoes in 
all their various forms from the egg to the mature insect on transparencies. 
The spaces about this exhibit are always crowded by curious people. Mr. Morse, 
Curator of the State Museum, who has been hard at work for almost a year 
in getting these New Jersey exhibits into shape, is very proud of the complete 
success that has crowmed his efforts. Jerseymen who visit the Exposition 
should not fail to inspect their State Exhibits. 
THE NEW JERSEY SALT WATER FISH, INSECT AND MOSQUITO 
EXHIBIT. 
Extracts from the “Plainfield Express.” 
The exhibit of live salt water fish from this State, which is shown in its tank, 
forty feet across, is the only one worth mentioning at the fair, and will un¬ 
doubtedly receive first prize. The water in the tank is kept constantly running 
by means of force pumps, and is also filtered every day. 
In connection with this exhibit there is also shown a characteristic Jersey 
oyster bed, under running salt water, with the oysters living and growing, 
showing the bivalves in the various stages of their development, the whole 
presenting the life of the oyster exactly as it is under natural condition. This 
is the first time in the history of the world, as far as known, that such an ex¬ 
hibit has been made. This exhibit is one of the star features of the exposition. 
New Jersey’s insect exhibit at the fair, which includes the collection of 
mosquitoes and a graphic exposition of the work being done in this State for 
their extirpation, is attracting the attention of scientists from all parts of the 
world, who are at St. Louis, and the part of this exhibit relating to the mos¬ 
quitoes is being studied by foreign savants, with a view of adopting the Jersey 
method in ridding other parts of the world of the troublesome insect. 
Among all the New Jersey exhibits the most unique and the one attracting 
the most attention consists of a number of glass tubes in which the develop¬ 
ment of the mosquito, from its inception to its full fledged growth and biting 
ability, is illustrated. In conjunction -with this exhibit is shown a scientific 
process for exterminating the mosquito. 
New Jersey’s best exhibit is its educational one, and teachers from other 
states, while visiting the fair, devote most attention to the New Jersey methods 
of teaching as demonstrated by the exhibits. Trenton’s exhibit is the best 
from the State in water color painting and in music. 
The insect exhibit received at Buffalo, 1901, a gold medal; at Charleston, 
1902, a gold medal; at St. Louis, 1904, grand prize and a gold medal. 
