54 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
for their possible extermination, would furnish most valuable information to 
every owner, either of a lawn or a farm. 
The mechanic arts should be represented by work from the factories, which 
would show the progressive stages of manufacture. The iron furnaces, steel 
works, potteries, brick yards, mills making textile fabrics, metallurgical works, 
and all other industrial establishments of the State ought to be represented, 
and the Museum would show these products of labor in foundry, factory, shop 
and mill, as well as the ores of the mines and crops of the fields and the products 
of the forest, presenting, as it were, a picture of the State with its natural 
resources, their several forms under the hand of the worker, and when trans- 
formed into articles adapted to the use of man. 
The Museum should be educational in the highest sense, and not a mere collec¬ 
tion of specimens without suggestion or educational value. It should, therefore, 
include within its scope the work of the district schools, of the high schools and 
academies, of the colleges and of the manual training schools, so as to illustrate 
methods of teaching and the results of school-work, and to show what our educa¬ 
tional system is doing to enable our youth intelligently to study the natural 
occurrences of minerals, rocks and ores, the phases of geological formations and 
the agricultural and industrial products, and to help them to use these tesouices 
to the best advantage. The highest development of natural wealth depends upon 
broad training in our schools, and every worker should have the advantages 
afforded by the best instruction. The establishment of such a Museum is 
essential to our proper representation at all State, provincial and world exposi¬ 
tions. It provides at once the nucleus of a State exhibit, saves the large c-osr 
of making it anew, and by its constant ingathering of valuable minerals affords 
a much broader range for selection. Small collections of duplicates of the 
exhibits of the several departments of the Museum could be made and loaned 
for a limited time to the schools aud other institutions in the State. 
A part of the Chicago exhibit has been placed in cases in the attic rooms and 
corridor of the third story of the State House central building, but gives a very 
imperfect impression of what could be done with adequate room. 
Issued by order of the Commissioners. 
Chas. J. Baxter. President. John C. Smock, Secretary. 
S. It. Morse, Curator. 
MORE CABINETS NEEDED. 
The need of additional cases for the Museum is urgent. All 
the available cases are filled, and large collections of minerals 
and fossils which ought to be on exhibition are stored away in 
the basement of the State House for lack of space in which to 
display them. The cases now in nse for the display of the 
geological specimens are old and ill-fitted for their purpose. 
They are wasteful of room, for purposes of display, and they 
afford no space for proper storage of duplicates. If these cases 
were replaced by new ones of a different type, two or three times 
as much material could be displayed in the same space. Not 
