A year in the life: 1870
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January |
No days |
?Lane Fox excavating Maiden Bower Bedfordshire |
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January |
11 |
Lane Fox attends meeting of Ethnological Society and shows to Australian skull drinking vessels, reads paper on New Zealand mere or pattoo-pattoo |
JESL 2, 1 (1870): 79 [footnote]; Chapman, 1981: 332 |
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January |
18 |
Lane Fox attends meeting of Anthropological Society. |
JAS, 8 (1870 - 1871): lxxiv-lxxvii |
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January |
25 |
Lane Fox attends meeting of Ethnological Society and presents paper about two mullers |
JESL, 2, 3 (1870): 121, Chapman, 1981: 333 |
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February |
5 |
Items acquired from Suffolk |
PRM accession book |
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February |
No days |
Lane Fox attends meeting of Archaeological Society and shows number of his firearms |
Chapman, 1981: 333 |
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March |
8 |
Lane Fox reads paper on archaeological work near Bangor, North Wales to Ethnological Society. |
JESL, 2, 3 (1870): 306-324; Chapman, 1981: 333 |
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March |
22 |
Ethnological Society meeting, Lane Fox present and contributes to discussion |
JESL, 2, 3 (1870): 325-340, 340-2 |
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March |
No days |
Objects with this date from Acton gravels |
PRM accession book |
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April |
12 |
Ethnological Society meeting, Lane Fox present |
JESL, 2, 3 (1870): 342-351 |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Lane Fox's 43rd birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate |
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May |
18 |
Annual meeting of Ethnological Society Lane Fox makes report as Hon. Sec. He is re-elected Hon. Sec. |
Chapman, 1981: 334 |
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May |
No days |
Objects acquired from Northern France |
PRM accession book |
It may be of no relevance, but AW Franks and John Evans were in west France and Paris in May 1870 on an archaeological tour [see Caygill 1997: 85] |
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May |
No days |
Objects acquired from Mrs Cowie |
PRM accession book |
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May - June |
No days |
Lane Fox visits Greenwell excavations at Grimes Graves with other members of Ethnological Society |
Chapman, 1981: 336 |
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June |
1 |
Lane Fox attends Ethnological Society meeting, contributes to discussion |
JESL, 2, 4 (1870): 400-2 |
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June |
9 |
Items obtained from Jersey |
PRM accession book |
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June |
14 |
According to Chapman, last official meeting of Anthropological Society |
Chapman, 1981: 341 |
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June |
21 |
Emergency meeting of Ethnological Society about Dorchester Dykes, Lane Fox reads paper. He had visited site before meeting and collected artefact. Meeting held at United Services Institute. |
Thompson, 1977: 124, Bowden, 1991: 76; JESL, 2, 4 (1870): 412-6 |
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June |
27 |
Ethnological Society meeting, PR present and contributes to discussion on Grimes Graves |
JESL, 2, 4 (1870): 419-39 |
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June |
No days |
Items acquired from Acton gravels |
PRM accession book |
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June |
No days |
Items acquired from Jersey |
PRM accession book |
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July |
13 |
Items acquired from Northern France |
PRM accession book |
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July |
18 |
Items acquired from Jersey |
PRM accession book |
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July |
20 |
Lane Fox writes to Worsaae in Copenhagen on behalf of Ethnological Society Council about preservation of monuments |
Thompson, 1977: 59 |
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July |
27 |
Lane Fox attends Greenwell's lecture on Grimes Graves at Ethnological Society |
Thompson, 1977: 124; Chapman, 1981: 337 |
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July |
11, 15, No days |
Items acquired from Acton gravels |
PRM accession book |
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August |
No days |
Items acquired from Suffolk, Essex |
PRM accession book |
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August |
29 |
Items acquired from Acton gravels |
PRM accession book |
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September |
19 |
Items acquired from Acton gravels |
PRM accession book |
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September |
26, 29 |
Items acquired from Jersey |
PRM accession book |
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October |
27 |
Items acquired from Acton gravels |
PRM accession book |
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November |
8 |
Ethnological Society meeting, Lane Fox present and shows a Borneo stone tool, possibly item referred to in Chapman which he says was also shown at Society of Antiquaries |
Journal of Anthropology, 1, 3 (1871): 360-362; JAI, 1, (1872): xxxix; Chapman, 1981: 342 |
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November |
28, 29 |
Items acquired from Acton gravels |
PRM accession book |
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December |
13 |
Anthropological Institute. meeting, Lane Fox present and contributes to discussion |
JAI 1, (1872): xcii-xcvii , c-cxxi |
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