REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
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and corridor of the third story of the State House central building, but gives 
a very imperfect impression of what could be done with adequate room. 
Issued by order of the Commissioners. 
Chas. J. Baxter, President. John C. Smock, Secretary. 
S. R. Morse, Curator. 
Circular No. 2. 
State of New Jersey. 
The State Museum. 
To the School Officers, Superintendents and Teachers of New Jersey _ 
All the New Jersey school-work shown in 1893 at the World’s Fair, in 
Chicago, has been arranged, and will remain on exhibition at the State House 
for a limited period. We are now ready to place additional exhibits, and 
should be pleased to receive more recent specimens of the work done in the 
several departments of your schools. A large quantity is not desired, but 
enough to show its character and excellence. Whatever you shall favor us 
with will remain on exhibit until such time as the progress of the schools, 
under your supervision, shall enable you to forward to us other work of still 
greater merit. 
The State Museum was designed to become one of.our permanent educa¬ 
tional factors, and it is believed that its successful maintenance will prove of 
great advantage to the State. It will serve as an incentive to effort for your 
pupils to know that a State Institution has been established for the purpose 
of exhibiting their work, and that it will here be shown in connection with 
that received from other schools of the State. 
The Museum will pay the expressage on all school-work received, and it 
is the wish of its Commissioners that every school in the State shall be 
represented. Soliciting the favor of an early reply, I am, in behalf of the 
Commissioners, 
Very truly yours, 
S. R. Morse, 
Curator. 
Circular No. 3. 
State of New Jersey. 
The State Museum. 
To the Manufacturers of New Jersey: 
As the Commissioners of the New Jersey State Museum desire to make the 
influence of this institution educational in as comprehensive a sense as 
possible, they take this means of interesting you in its welfare and soliciting 
your able co-operation. 
We should be pleased to receive samples which would clearly illustrate in 
each and every line of manufacture the progressive steps from the raw 
material to the completed article. 
Such an exhibit would constitute a most important and essential feature of 
a State Museum. It would be educational because of giving the public a 
more intelligent appreciation of the great industries upon which the pros- 
