REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 19 
extent. Marl from all the important pits are represented in the 
Survey collection. 
go-Us .—Of late years, study of the soils has been relinquished 
by the Geological Survey in favor of the Agricultural Experiment 
Station, at New Brunswick, but. many samples of various types 
of soil,, representative of the different parts of the State, arc on 
exhibition. 
Building • Stonps. —The building stones of the State are shown 
in neatly-dressed cubes, four to eight inches square, the different 
sides being differently dressed to bring out different character¬ 
istics of the stone. The specimens include granite from Passaic, 
Sussex, Warren and Morris, marble from Sussex, Warren and 
Morris, limestone from Warren and Sussex, sandstones from 
Mercer, Hunterdon, Essex and Passaic, slate from Sussex. 
Well-bonngs .—Artesian and deep-bored wells form the chief 
source of potable water for large sections of the. State and 
numerous towns, notably along the .coast, deriving their supply 
from them. The Survey has made careful record of many of 
these wells and obtained suites of specimens of the borings. A 
number of these, both from Northern and. Southern New Jersey, 
have been arranged in long glass tubes on a reduced scale and 
placed on exhibition in the Museum. The most notable one is 
that of the deep u T ell at Atlantic City, 2,300 feet from the floor 
of Young’s Pier, the deepest boring in the State. These sec¬ 
tions are of great value to the scientist as well as of interest to 
the general public. 
Fossils .—Many of the geological formations, both of the 
northern and southern portion of the State, contain numerous 
fossils—the remains of the animals living at the time the rocks 
were formed. These are most: commonly the shells or casts of the 
shells of the lower forms of marine life, but include also the 
scales, bones and teeth of fish and higher forms. The fossils 
on exhibition arc chiefly from the clays, sands and marls 
of the southern part of the State. They comprise many varieties 
of shells, teeth of sharks, vertebrate hones of mammals, claws of 
crustaceous, &c. These specimens afford a fair representation 
of the various types of life at the different geological periods. 
The Geological Survey is in possession of large collections of 
fossil-fish from the red sandstone formation and of old fossils 
