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REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
the Secretary of the State House Commission that it had assigned 
to the Museum Commission the third floor corridors and two- 
rooms opening off the same. 
At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the State Board 
of Agriculture, held April 23d, 1895, the following resolution 
was adopted : 
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 prop¬ 
erly 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 
warehouse, to release the same to the State Museum Commission or the 
Curator thereof. 
Approved, 
Franklin Dye, D. D. Denise, 
Secretary. President. 
In accordance with this resolution the Chicago Agricultural 
exhibit was turned over to the Curator of the Museum and has. 
been kept and cared for up to the present time. 
At a following meeting it was ordered that the Secretary of 
the World’s Fair Commission be requested to deliver to the 
Museum the exhibits of the Geological, Educational and Agri¬ 
cultural Departments in his possession pursuant to the resolution 
of each Department. 
In accordance with this request the above exhibits were turned 
over to the Curator of the State Museum and placed in the State- 
House. 
governor’s message oe the session of 1895. 
Governor George T. Werts, in his annual message of 1895, in 
speaking of the exhibits at the Columbian Exposition at Chicaga 
in 1893, sa id: “The exhibits (at the World’s Fair) included the 
educational, agricultural, geological and seacoast exhibits. These 
exhibits were very fine and cost large sums of money. If pre¬ 
served intact they are now worth more than their original cost. 
