REPORT OF isEW JERSEY STATE MFSEL'M. IT 
cient cases in which to display this material, only a portion is 
on exhibition, the remainder, including some very valuable ma¬ 
terial, being stored away in boxes in the basement of the State 
House. With new cases to replace the present antiquated ones, 
which date back to the Centennial Exposition, two or three times 
as much material could be advantageously displayed in the same 
space. 
Although only a portion of the material on hand is on exhi¬ 
bition, it must not be supposed that, the display is not well 
worthy of study. A steady and consistent effort has been put 
forth to make the exhibit thoroughly representative of the mineral 
resources of the State and distinctly educational in value. To 
this end, considerable sums of money have been spent from time 
to time in the purchase of material to till gaps in ihe collections, 
and to pay experts for installing them. 
It is not planned to give here a complete list of the geological 
specimens, but the following summary indicates the scope of the 
exhibit which is limited strictly to material found within the 
State. The collection consists of minerals, iron, copper, and 
zinc-ores, rocks, clays and clay products, sands, marls, soils, 
building stones, well-borings, fossils, models, maps and trans¬ 
parencies. 
Minerals .—The mineral collection includes, with one or two 
exceptions, specimens of all the minerals found in the Stall*. 
Many of these are specimens of exceptional beauty and great 
value. In some cases these are of great rarity,'there being but 
few duplicates in existence. Among the most important mineral 
specimens are graphite from Sussex, Passaic and Somerset 
counties, native copper and copper-ores from Somerset ami .Mid¬ 
dlesex, native silver from Middlesex, molybdenite from Sussex, 
lead-ores from Sussex, zinc minerals—sphalerite, zincite, wi lb- 
mite and calamine—from Sussex and Warren counties, pynte 
from Middlesex, fluorite from Hudson, amythest quartz from 
Passaic, opal from Passaic, corundum from Sussex. Handsome 
crystals of magnetite and franklinite from Sussex, limonite t rom 
Warren and Middlesex, beautiful crystals of calcite from Hudson, 
rhodochrosite from Sussex, magnificent specimens of pectolite 
from Hudson, rhodonite from Sussex, asbestos from Warren, 
garnets from Sussex, datolite from Hudson, prenite from hassaie, 
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