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Month
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Day
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Event
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Source of information
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Notes
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January-June
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26 February,
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Lane Fox works on gravel deposits Thames Valley London
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Thompson, 1977: 124, dates from PRM accession book
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January
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9
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Lane Fox excavating Callow Hill, Oxfordshire
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OW website
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January
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19
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Lane Fox attends Anthropological Society meeting and comments on paper
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JAS, 7 (1869): cxi-cxii
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January
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26
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Lane Fox attends meeting of Ethnological Society and exhibits marble armlet and bronze spearhead, the latter was also shown at Society of Antiquaries
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Chapman, 1981: 300
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Date of showing at Society of Antiquaries unknown
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January - February
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No days [late Jan early Feb]
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Lane Fox examines gravel terraces at Acton
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Chapman, 1981: 306
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February
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9
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Lane Fox reads Westropp's paper 'On cromlechs...' at Ethnological Society
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Chapman, 1981: 300
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February
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No days [end]
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Ethnological Society resolves to set up committee to look at classifying and registering all ethnological evidence. This acts on proposal of Lane Fox
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Chapman, 1981: 305
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March-April
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No days
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Lane Fox organizes series of special exhibits at Museum of Practical Geology for meetings of the Ethnological Society
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Chapman, 1981: 152; Chapter 5
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See special meetings of Ethnological Society. 2 meetings were held in each month
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March
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No days
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Objects with this date from Acton gravels
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PRM accession book
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March
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No days
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2 special meetings of the Ethnological Society arranged by Lane Fox among others, 'Indian ethnology and archaelogy'. Exhibition contains some Lane Fox objects
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Chapman, 1981: 308
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Meetings had associated exhibitions
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March
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No days
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Lubbock persuades Ethnological Society to set up sub-committee to 'ascertain the present state of prehistoric monuments in these islands and the best means for their preservation'. Committee comprises Lubbock, Huxley, John Evans and Lane Fox
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Patton, 2007: 85
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April
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12, 14 or 15
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Lane Fox's 42nd birthday
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See 1827 for uncertainty about exact birthdate
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April
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No days
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2 special meetings of the Ethnological Society arranged by Lane Fox among others, North American Indian tribes' and 'Races of New Zealand and Polynesia'
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Chapman, 1981: 308
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Meetings had associated exhibitions
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May
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No days, 1, 4, 10, 13, 15, 29
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Objects with this date from Acton gravels
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PRM accession book, dates from PRM accession book
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May
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22
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Items acquired from Clutterbuck collection
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PRM accession book
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May
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No days
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Items acquired from Bryce Wright
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PRM accession book
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June
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5, 14
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Objects with these dates from Acton gravels
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PRM accession book
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June
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18
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Lane Fox gives third lecture 'Primitive Warfare' to United Services Institute
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Thompson, 1977: 124; Chapman, 1981: 287
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June
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23
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Lane Fox attends Lord Stanley's funeral at Alderley (his father-in-law)
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The Times 25 June 1869
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July
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7
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Items acquired from Suffolk
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PRM accession book
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July
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2, 10, 14, 15, 21
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Objects with these dates from Acton gravels
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PRM accession book
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August
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No days
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Lane Fox fieldwalking at Stonehenge
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OW website, dates PRM accession book; Bowden, 1991: 75
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August
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3, 9, 12, 16, No days
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Items acquired from Acton gravels
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PRM accession book
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August
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24
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Lane Fox attends British Association for the Advancement of Science [BAAS] meeting at Exeter, gives paper on finds in Thames Valley and Acton
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Anthropological Review, 7, 27 1869: 414-32; The Times 25 August 1869; Chapman, 1981: Chapter VI
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August
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28, 30, 31
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Fieldwalking Gloucestershire with Kate Amberley after BAAS meeting. Uley, Hetty Pegler's Tump. 28 August visit Hampton Common. Visits Wheybury on 31 August, crawl inside tumulus
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Thompson, 1977: 49; Bowden, 1991: 94; 101; Russell, Amberley Papers II 279-80; Chapman 1981 chapter VI
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Dates PRM accession book and Thompson. Dates at end from Amberley Papers
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September
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no days
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Visit with Alice to Penrhyn Castle, North Wales, home of his aunt Lady Penrhyn wife of Edward Gordon Douglas
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Chapman 1981 chapter VI
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September
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No days
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Dorchester Dykes
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Source unknown
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September
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No days
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Items acquired from Suffolk
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PRM accession book
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September
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2, 25, No days
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Items acquired from Acton gravels
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PRM accession book
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September
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9
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Dorchester Dykes, Sinodun Camp fieldwalking
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PRM accession book
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October
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14
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Lane Fox writes to Caulfield [Bodleian Library Caulfield papers Folio 183] to suggest committee be formed of him, Harkness, Westropp, Day and Brash to report on megalithic monuments in Cork and Kerry
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Twohig, 1987: 42
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October
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16, poss. other days too
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Lane Fox digging barrows Bangor, North Wales while staying with relatives in Penrhyn Castle
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Thompson, 1977: 50, 124; Chapman, 1981: 330; Bowden, 1991: 75 [date in Bowden]
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October
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No days
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Items acquired from Suffolk
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PRM accession book
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October
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2, 8, no days
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Items acquired from Sussex
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PRM accession book
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November
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9
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Lane Fox reads paper on proposed exploration of Stonehenge by BAAS to Ethnological Society
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JESL, 2,1 (1870): 1-5; Chapman, 1981: 328
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November
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23
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Lane Fox attends meeting of Ethnological Society and comments on paper
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JESL 2, 1 (1870): 39-43
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December
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7
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Lane Fox attends meeting of Ethnological Society and comments on paper
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JESL 2, 1 (1870): 45-73
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No month
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No days
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Lane Fox excavating Hope's Nose Torbay
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OW website, PRM accession book
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This is unconfirmed, note that P-R holidayed in Torbay as a child [Chapman, 1981: 6]
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No month
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No days
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Lane Fox co-editor of Ethnological Society journal with Lubbock, Huxley and others. 1869-70 he is Honorary General Secretary of society
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JESL, 1, 1 (1869).
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No month
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No days
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Lane Fox displays items from Irrawaddy India at meetings of Ethnological Society
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JESL, 1, 2 (1869): 89
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No month
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No days
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Sister-in-law describes trip to Hampton Court with Lane Fox
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Chapman, 1981: 118
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