 At present , the building houses administrative offices and the university 's geological museum . The museum , one of the oldest collegiate geology collections in the United States , was founded by state geologist and Rutgers professor George Hammell Cook in 1872 . Its exhibits showcase the natural history of New Jersey ; focusing geology , paleontology , and anthropology . Exhibits include fluorescent zinc minerals from Franklin and Ogdensburg , a mastodon from Salem County , a dinosaur trackway discovered in Towaco , and a Ptolemaic era Egyptian mummy . 
