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t The Agricultural Department was also able to do the 
" as the Museum furnished show-cases, glass jars, collections 
; f corn seeds, &c., large photographs, stereoscope with 100 farm 
views collection of oysters and a fine collection of insects in- 
urious to vegetation. For the New Jersey cottage it furnished 
'some fine large New Jersey pictures; also the forestry exhibit, 
the first New Jersey has ever made. This contained samples 
£ s ome of the woods cut so as to show the horizontal, lateral 
and quarter cuts with the barks, a case of sliced woods m cabi¬ 
nets showing between glass, the grain, growth, sap cells, f.‘., 
with several cases of insects injurious to the forests of the state; 
some manual training work of the public schools, large photo¬ 
graphs of forests, with the forestry maps of the State prepared 
by the Geological Department, and photographs of the trees, 
showing them with and without foliage.” 
THE PAN-AMERICAN EXHIBITION. 
The following State Departments made exhibits at the Pan- 
American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901: Geological, Educational, 
Museum and Agricultural. Nearly all of the exhibits, with t 10 
cabinets, tables, cases and other furniture, have been returned to 
the State and are now in the State Museum. 
THE state educational exhibit. 
The manual training work consisted of wood-turning and 
carving, woodwork, ironwork, sewing, mechanical drawing, &c. 
The academic work was such as is done by the pupils every schoo 
day, and included exercises in mathematics, grammar, geography, 
drawing, penmanship, language, Latin, Greek and German. 
There were also photographs of school buildings, and interior 
views showing school furniture, apparatus and classes at work. 
The State Normal and Model Schools furnished a large and 
excellent exhibit. The pupils of the State School for the Deaf 
prepared a fine exhibit. That of the State School for Girls 
consisted mainly of needlework and embroidery, which was ex¬ 
cellent, A fine display of work was prepared by the Institution 
