REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
17 
The zinc ores from Franklin are varied and rich, and the Museum 
has many fine specimens, zincite, willemite and franklinite. 
The rock specimens represent the various types of rock formations 
found in the State. 
The Clay industry is one of great importance in the State. It is 
fitting, therefore, that the Geological Museum should make a good dis¬ 
play. All the samples from important localities are on exhibition, 
representing the most valuable grades. 
The glass and fire-sands of South Jersey are of great commercial 
importance. A fairly full series of specimens, each in a handsome 
glass jar, is on exhibition. 
The green sand marls of the State were formerly of great value as 
fertilizers, and the} r are still dug to a considerable extent. Marl from 
all the important pits are represented in the Survey collection. 
Man}^ samples of various types of soil, representative of the different 
parts of the State, are on exhibition. 
The building stones of the State are shown in neatly-dressed cubes. 
Artesian and deep-bored wells form the chief source of potable water 
for large sections of the State and numerous towns, notably along the 
coast, derive their supply from them. The Survey has made careful 
record of many of these wells and obtained suites of specimens of the 
borings, A number of these, both from Northern and Southern New 
Jersey, have been arranged in long glass tubes on a reduced scale and 
placed on exhibition in the Museum. The most notable one is that 
of the deep well at Atlantic City, 2,306 feet from the floor of Young’s 
Pier, the deepest boring in the State. These sections are of great 
value to the scientist as well as of interest to the general public. 
Many of the geological formations, both of the northern and 
southern portions of the State, contain numerous fossils—the remains 
of the animals living at the time the rocks were formed. 
The Geological Survey is in possession of large collections of fossil- 
fish from the red sandstone formation and of old fossils from Warren 
and Sussex counties. 
There are two excellent cross sections of white cedar that were 
found buried eleven feet beneath the surface in a salt, marsh near Den- 
nisville, Cape May county, and donated the exhibit by Dr. Maurice 
Beasley. These specimens are over three feet in diameter and are well 
preserved. 
The large copper model of the State, on a scale of one inch per mile, 
which was made for exhibition at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 
occupies a conspicuous place in the Museum and attracts much atten¬ 
tion. In addition to the large model, there are several small ones, 
made for the Pan-American Exposition, of selected localities in the 
State. 
