24 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Again he says: The New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania exhibits, 
however, are the ones that show the best outcome of long contact by all 
kinds of interested agencies with natural resources. Man has there attained 
by education and science, the proper relation to the waters and forests and 
their citizens: Thus it is that we see the fruit of purely scientific investiga¬ 
tions in the work of (Xpert commissioners. 
New York and New Jersey’s work in economic biology is illustrated by 
the very fine studies of tree-injuring insects. But the glory of New Jersey 
s the mosquito campaign exhibit, a resume of what has been done, and of 
what the state expects to accomplish. Briefly told the problem is one of 
draining and filling up of the breeding places of mosquitoes. The exhibit 
shows the enemies of the mosquitoes and how they may be utilized. 
THE NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM AT THE 
WORLD’S FAIR ST. LOUIS. 
Taken from the New York Herald, Sunday, June 5, 1904. 
This is the first time the New Jersey State Museum has ever had a fish and 
game exhibit. Some of its features are the manner of presenting birds in 
groups consisting of male and female, the nests and eggs, and in some cases 
the young with the environments of the birds. No other exhibit at the 
World’s Fair has done this. This method is pronounced the best that has 
ever beemshown at a world’s fair. The fish specimens are so well mounted 
that they seem real. The quadrupeds are also in groups, showing in some 
cases the male, female and young with their native surroundings. These 
attract much attention and are admired by all. Some of them are of the 
opossums, the skunks, the muskrats, young and nests, etc. 
The oyster exhibit, consisting of a tank repesenting 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 waters. 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 speci¬ 
mens 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 furnishes a 
complete course of education in mosquito extermination. It shows thousands 
of the different kinds of mosquitoes, the places in which they breed, the 
various stages of development, methods of draining mosquito pest holes, 
samples of the various small fish that feed on mosquito larvae, and enlarge¬ 
ments 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 crowned his efforts. 
Jerseymen who visit the Exposition should not fail to inspect their State 
exhibits. 
THE NEW JERSEY SALT WATER FISH 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 
