National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution Libraries in the Service of Science
November 22, 2002 – June 3, 2005
On view in this case is a life-size, color illustration of a green-backed golden pheasant, found in the library-bound A Monograph of the Phasianidae or Family of the Pheasants (1872) by Daniel Giraud Elliot. These illustrations are still being used today as a reference by scientists.
