Financial Report for 1903. 
A. W. Mulford, Publisher, books and bird plates. fl6 50 
John B. Smith, supplies for insect cases. 9 05 
S. L. Crosby Co., mounting specimens. 5 00 
E. S. Cobb, natural history specimens. 41 00 
•Jacob C. Cassel, glass globes, &c-. 40 04 
S. h. Crosby Co., mounting fish, &e. 107 50 
Wm. H. Werner, work on birds and other specimens. 183 10 
Frank Santer, mounting fish. 25 00 
New Jersey School-Church Co., cabinets, &c-. 514 50 
John L. Mnrplffl Co., printing and envelopes for reports. 5 25 
Jacob C. Cassel, glass shades for birds. 44 58 
•$097 52 
Balance unexpended . 2 48 
Amount of appropriation, $1,000. 
$1,000 00 
There has been prepared by Mr. Witmer Stone, of the Academy 
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, for the Geological Survey 
Exhibit at St. Louis World’s Fair, an interesting map showing the 
distribution of vertebrate animal life in New Jersey. As this map 
will eventually form an exhibit in the State Museum, a brief ac¬ 
count of it is here introduced. 
The base of the tuap is the relief sheet which accompanies Yol. 
I\ ., Final Report of the State Geologist. This map was con¬ 
structed from the topographic sheets made by the Geological 
Survey. 
The relief of New Jersey as described by Professor Salisbury, 
Physical Geography of New Jersey by Pollin D. Salisbury, with 
appendix by Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule, Yol. IV. of the Final 
Report of .the State Geologist, Trenton, New Jersey, 1898, falls 
into four zones, which are described as follows: 
The Appalachian zone, so far as represented in New Jersey, has 
.a relief of more than 1,500 feet, its highest point being more than 
1,800 feet above the sea. Its topography may be said to be char- 
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