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REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Whereas, A Commission has been appointed to arrange for a State Museum, 
and has appointed a Curator to have charge of such articles as may properly 
be placed therein, and as there are in the agricultural collection exhibited at 
Chicago, now stored at the Fidelity Warehouse, Trenton, a number of articles 
which should be preserved in said State Museum; therefore, 
Resolved , That the Executive Committee of the State Board of Agriculture 
hereby requests the authorities in charge of the agricultural exhibit at the ware¬ 
house, to release the same to the State Museum Commission or the Curator 
thereof. 
Approved, 
D. D. Denise, 
President. 
Franklin Dye, 
Secretary. 
In accordance with this resolution the Chicago Agricultural Ex¬ 
hibit was turned over to the Curator of the Museum and has been 
kept and cared for up to the present. 
The following is an extract from the minutes of a meeting of the 
Board of Managers of the Geological Survey held December 2d, 1902: 
“After a statement of the laws regarding the Geological Museum and the 
State Museum, the following resolution was passed: 
“ ‘ Resolved , That the State Geologist be instructed to place such part of the 
Geological collections as are now on exhibition and are not needed for pur¬ 
poses of study in charge of the State Museum Commission, and that the 
Board of Managers reserve the right to assume direct charge of all Geological 
Collections whenever in their opinion the interests of the Survey demand it/ ” 
MUSEUM EXHIBIT AT PRESENT. 
Educational Department .—This exhibit is in the corridor and side 
room on the third floor of the State House. It is a large and inter¬ 
esting exhibit of work from the public, state schools and other state 
institutions. 
In this section can be found nearly all of the educational exhibits 
that were shown at Chicago in 1893, Buffalo in 1901, South Caro¬ 
lina in 1901-2, St. Louis in 1904, Jamestown in 1907, and a part 
of that sent to Philadelphia in 1876 and New Orleans in 1884. Most 
of the work is either in bound volumes or in the swing frame cabinets 
which were invented and first used for the Educational Exhibit at 
Chicago in 1893, and since used at all the expositions by others. 
This method was a revelation in the way of exhibiting specimens, as 
it increased the wall space 32 times and preserves the work. 
Geological Department .—This exhibit is to be found in the large 
exhibit room on the third floor. The geological specimens are mostly 
shown in cabinets made especially for the State Museum and which 
were planned by the Curator and State Geologist. The specimens 
can be easily seen, yet they are under glass and locked. Under these 
cabinets are sets of drawers, interchangeable, in which duplicate 
