REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
commission, and the expenses incurred in the preparation of said rooms and for 
the care of said exhibits shall be paid by the state treasurer on the warrant of 
the comptroller; provided, that the plans for the alterations necessary to pro¬ 
vide said rooms shall be approved by the governor, comptroller and treasurer, 
or a majority of them, and the work done under their direction, and no work 
shall be commenced or contract entered into until a specific appropriation is 
provided for the purposes set forth in the act to which this is a supplement. 
2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
Approved April 21, 1896. 
CIRCULARS OF INFORMATION. 
'I hat the object of die Few Jersey State Museum should be 
understood by the people of the State, the Commission requested 
the Curator to prepare circulars stating its objects, and to have 
them distributed throughout the State, 
In compliance with this request the following circulars were 
prepaied, printed and circulated, and are still being distributed. 
Unit the object ot the Museum may be understood, we insert 
in this report Circular No. 1: 
State of New Jersey. 
The State Museum. • 
Circular of Information. 
on^ he ->dHa Mueeum was established by act of the Legislature, approved March 
zutn, loUo. 
It had its origin in the collections made by the State for the World’s Colum¬ 
bian Exposition m Chicago in 1893. Governor Werts, in his message to the 
legislature m 1895, said : “The exhibits include the educational, agricultural 
geological and seacoast exhibits. These exhibits were very fine and cost large 
sums of money. If preserved intact, they are now worth more than their 
onginal cost, as it would be impossible to duplicate them. In my opinion the 
exhibits should be preserved, and the State should provide some place or places 
where they may be shown as a museum or educational exhibit. They could 
not be sold as a whole, and to sell them piecemeal would produce but’ an in- 
significant sum and destroy what can never be replaced.” 
The Geological Survey, the Department of Public Instruction and the State 
-Boaul ot Agriculture were represented in the exhibits referred to in the Gov¬ 
ernors message. In accordance with the above recommendation a Commission 
was cieated, consisting of the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House 
the'pT'u^ Ge ° loglst ’ the Superintendent of Public Instruction and 
to eJ hl , t State ®° al ' d ° f ^’iculture. The object of this Commission 
is to establish a Museum for the proper exhibition of these collections of the 
1 e auc t0 appomt !1 Curat °r to have general charge of such Museum. The 
