PROVIDENCE — On the second floor of the Museum of Natural History, a dramatic argus pheasant mounted in a display case spreads its speckled wings. The museum’s first director, James M. Southwick, owned the bird, and loaned it for exhibition in 1896, the year the museum opened. Then he sold it to Charles Smith, who had a large collection of ...
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:09PM on January 3, 2011