The Pitt Rivers Museum
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- Discussion during 1840s of development of separate natural history museum from Ashmolean Museum
- Henry Nottidge Moseley born, 14 November
- University Galleries established in Beaumont Street to display University's fine art collections
- Reputedly Pitt Rivers began to amass his collection while serving as Lieutenant in British Army
- 4 acres of land purchased from Merton College for new Museum of Natural History [hereafter known as OUMNH] on Parks Road
- John Phillips, the geologist, appointed Keeper of OUMNH ?
