16 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
SCHOOL AND MANUAL TRAINING WORK. 
The original intention of the Museum Commission was to add each 
year to the exhibits w'e had from the several expositions, new work 
to show the advancement and improvement in this line of work. 
Owing to the lack of space, it has been impossible to carry out this 
plan, greatly to the regret of all concerned. We believe that if some 
of the best work done in the Public Schools in the several branches 
could be sent to the Museum each year for exhibition, it would be 
a great incentive to the pupils to do better work. It is hoped that this 
plan can yet be carried out. 
We have work from nearly every school in the State, but no new 
work since the Jamestown Exposition in 1907. We hope the time 
will soon come when the State can make more room for the Museum 
so that we can properly display what we have and add other work, as 
intended. 
THE GEOLOGICAL EXHIBIT. 
The Geological Department of the Museum contains a portion of 
the material collected by the Geological Survey in the course of its in¬ 
vestigations, as well as collections obtained by purchase and those 
made especially for the World’s Columbian Exposition and the Pan- 
American Exhibition. 
It is not planned to give here a complete list of the geological 
specimens, but the following summary indicates the scope of the ex¬ 
hibit, which is limited strictly to material found within the State. 
The collection consists of minerals iron, copper and zinc-ores, rocks, 
clays and clay products, sands, marls, soils, building stones, well- 
borings, fossils, models, maps and transparencies. 
The Mineral collection includes, with one or two exceptions, speci¬ 
mens of all the minerals found in the State. Many of these speci¬ 
mens are of exceptional beauty and great value. In some cases these 
are of great rarity, there being but few duplicates in existence. 
The Museum is extremely rich in its collection of iron ores. These 
include specimens from all the iron ores of the State, which have 
ever been producers of any importance. Since many of these mines 
are no longer worked, and, in some cases, the openings are full of 
water and are permanently abandoned, this collection cannot be dupli¬ 
cated. 
The Museum also has a fine set of copper ores, chiefly native copper 
from the American Copper Mine at Somerville. 
