20 REPOET OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Assembly, Hon. Joseph Cross; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. A. 
B. Poland; State Geologist, Prof. John C. Smock, and President of the State 
Board of Agriculture, Hon. D. D. Denise. At this meeting Dr. A. B. Poland 
was elected president; Hon.' E. C. Stokes, secretary, and S. R. Morse was 
unanimously elected curator at a salary of $1,500, which salary he did not re¬ 
ceive until the Museum was established in the State House. This report con¬ 
tains a reprint of the circulars prepared by the Curator and approved by the 
Commission, also an account of the exhibits at the Pan American Exposition 
held in Buffalo in 1901 and the awards received. 
Second Report, 1902 .—The second report was for 1902. The Commission 
at this time consisted of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. C. J. 
Baxter; Prof. Henry B. Ktimmel, State Geologist; Dr. E. B. Voorhees, Presi¬ 
dent of the State Board of Agriculture; Hon. C. Asa Francis, President of 
the Senate, and Hon. Win. J. Bradley, Speaker of the Assembly. The heads 
of the different departments in the Museum at this time were as follows: 
Education, Dr. C. J. Baxter; Agriculture, Dr. E. B. Voorhees ; Geology, Dr. 
H. B. Kummel; Forestry, Prof. John C. Smock; Birds and Botany, Prof. 
Austin C. Apgar; Entomology, Prof. John B. Smith; Manufactures, James 
T. Morgan, Esq.; Taxidermist, Wm. H. Werner, Esq. 
A full account of the Museum, Educational, Geological, Agricultural and 
other exhibits at Buffalo are given in this report; also an account of the Edu¬ 
cational, Forestry and other exhibits at the South Carolina Inter-State and 
West India Exposition at Charleston, S. C. This report also contains a list 
of the specimens of birds, insects, woods, &c., at that time in the Museum. 
A list of the medals received at the Pan-American Exposition will be found 
therein, the Educational State Exhibit being the only one to receive a gold 
medal at this exposition, the Geological Survey, a gold and silver medal and the 
Forestry exhibit a gold, silver and bronze medal and an honorable mention, 
and the Agricultural exhibit a gold and silver medal. 
Third Report, 1903 .—This report is a short but interesting one on the Birds 
of New Jersey, with illustrations and a few colored plates; also comments on 
the Geological Collection in the Museum. The first Arbor and Bird Day circular 
issued by State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Hon. C. J. Baxter, and 
the Proclamation of Governor Franklin Murphy, also the law for the pro¬ 
tection of birds (1903, approved March 26th), are also found therein, under 
the Curator’s report. The edition was soon exhausted. 
Fourth Report, 1901 }.—This is a report explanatory of the part the New 
Jersey State Museum took in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis 
in 1904, and describes the several exhibits in which the Museum had a part, 
including the educational, museum (which embraced the geological, forestry, 
fish and game, insects, “How to Exterminate Mosquitoes,” oysters and clams, 
live salt water fish, &c.). A description is also given of the new cabinets for the 
Museum, what the Museum did for the State exhibits at St. Louis, the names 
of the New Jersey Exposition Commissioners at St. Louis, and Jersey Day 
at the Exposition. The Commissioners of the Museum at this time were: 
Hon. C. J. Baxter, Superintendent of Public Instruction; Dr. Henry B. 
Kummel, State Geologist; Prof. E. B. Voorhees, President of the State Board 
of Agriculture; Hon. Edmund W. Wakelee, President of the Senate, and Hon. 
John Boyd Avis, Speaker of the Assembly. 
Fifth Report, 1905 .—This report contains a frontispiece picture of Governor 
E. C. Stokes and also a report of the Curator, giving the additions to the 
Museum for the year and the Geological Collections made for the public schools 
and a catalogue of “How to Exterminate Mosquitoes,” by Prof. John B. Smith. 
The scientific part of this report is on “The Fishes of New Jersey,” by Henry 
W. Fowler of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and describes 
nearly all of the fresh and salt water fish found in New Jersey waters to date, 
with index and fully illustrated. These reports were placed in all of the public 
school and state libraries of the State. This is one of the most valuable re¬ 
ports issued by the Museum. The edition has been exhausted for several years. 
