REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 33 
NEW MATERIAL AT ST. LOUIS. 
SOME TO BE ADDED TO THE COLLECTION. 
This collection received the highest award at the Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition. A Grand Prize and two Gold Medals. 
Written by Prof. John B. Smith. 
It has been intended to add materially to this collection in 
pursuance of the general scheme outlined, but a fire in New 
Jersey Hall, in which the Entomological Laboratories were 
situated, put an end to all work in 1902, and damaged the 
cases which had been received from the Museum to contain 
the new collections. 
When matters were in a condition so that work might be 
resumed, it was suggested that an exhibit might be made to 
represent the results of the mosquito investigation, at St. 
Louis. When, after consultation, the Commission finally de¬ 
cided that such an Exhibit was desirable, it was quite under¬ 
stood that while it represented the work of the Experiment 
Station, it was, nevertheless to form part of the Exhibit of the 
State Museum, and the repaired boxes belonging to the Museum 
were used to contain the Exhibit material. A free hand was 
given to the Entomologist to design the Exhibit cases, subject 
of course, to the approval of the Curator, who insisted on a 
retention of his unit system with no more modifications than 
the shape of the space assigned, demanded. 
The Exhibit was completed and installed on the opening 
day of the Fair and attracted interested attention from the 
beginning. The opinion of the judges is indicated by the fact 
that they awarded to it one of the (10?) grand prizes given 
in the entire Forestry, Fish and Game Building and, in addi¬ 
tion, awarded a Gold Medal to the Entomologist who prepared 
it—it is a rare honor for an Entomologist to receive a gold 
medal. These medals will be placed in thp Museum when re¬ 
ceived with the other medals received by and through the 
State Museum at St. Louis. 
The opinion of the scientific world was shown in part by the 
appreciative notices in their publications and, in part, by the 
