REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 69 
needed for the final work of pupils and the cardboard required 
to mount it were furnished by the State. 
The following special exhibits were solicited:—Specimens of 
minerals correctly labeled and boxed ready to set up, each 
label to state the name of the specimen, when and where 
found and the name, age and grade of the contributing pupil; 
mounted specimens of plants and leaves; home-made appar¬ 
atus for physical and chemical experiments; text-books, mono¬ 
graphs on special topics and other literary productions pre¬ 
pared by teachers, principals and superintendents engaged 
in pkblic school work; photographs showing the architecture 
of school buildings, their class rooms, furniture, apparatus 
and the personnel of teachers and pupils; also any special 
literary, scientific, mechanical or artistic work of pupils. 
In common with all other states New Jersey exhibited 
copies of school law, annual reports, courses of study, cata¬ 
logues, rules and regulations, and the various blank forms 
found necessary in modern school administration. 
The New Jersey Educational Exhibit differed in some feat¬ 
ures from that of other states. It had the same wing cabinets 
that were designed and used exclusively by the New Jersey 
Department of Public Instruction at Chicago in 1893, but for 
the display of books and various lines of work not readily 
shown upon the walls or in the cabinets, drawers instead of 
shelves were placed under the cabinets. These enabled the 
work to be put in convenient form for inspection and the 
additional merit of keeping it clean. 
Another feature entirely new and used for the first time at 
this exposition was the Index Key of which the following is an 
explanation: 
The Exhibit was divided into sections lettered from A to M 
inclusive, and these were subdivided into units numbered 
from 1 to 68 inclusive. Each unit consisted of a leaf Cabinet, 
with six drawers directly underneath. 
The units from 15 to 21 inclusive were arranged to serve 
as an Index to the entire public school exhibit. Unit No. 15, 
for instance, directed to 1st year’s work and Unit No. 16 
directed to 2nd and 4th year’s work, &c. 
In order to find the work from a particular school it was 
simply necessary, first, to find in one of the Index cabinets 
