A year in the life: 1871

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Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

10

Ethnological Society meeting, Lane Fox present and shows skulls from Vancouver Island

JAI 1, (1872): cxxii

 

January

17

Lane Fox attends meeting of council of Anthropological Society

JAI 1, (1872): xix-xxiv

 

January

24

Anthropological Society meeting, Lane Fox present and contributes to discussion

JAI 1, (1872): cliv-clv

 

January

No days

Final negotiations between members of Anthropological Society and Ethnological Society about merger

Chapman, 1981: 341

 

February

14

Special General Meeting of Anthropological Society Lane Fox appointed to Council

JAI 1, (1872): xxxvi-xxxvii

 

February

15

item acquired from France

PRM accession book

 

February

18

Item acquired from Richard Burton

PRM accession book

 

March

6

Anthropological Institute meeting, Lane Fox present and shows flint from Mexico and contributes to discussion

JAI 1, (1872): 30; 30-52

 

March

29

Item acquired from Dorchester

PRM accession book

 

April

3

Anthropological Institute meeting, Lane Fox present and contributes to discussion

JAI 1, (1872): 70-3

 

April

12

Lane Fox at Walbury Camp, Combe Berkshire

Info from PRM accession book see for example 1884.10.21, site identified by Dan Hicks

 

April

12, 14 or 15

Lane Fox's 44th birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate

 

April

17

Anthropological Institute meeting, Lane Fox present and contributes to discussion

JAI 1, (1872): 89-104

 

April

25

Items acquired from Bryce Wright

PRM accession book

 

May

No day [early]

Lane Fox elected vice-president of Society of Antiquaries

Chapman, 1981: 342

 

May

1

Lane Fox purchases Cesnola material, Sotheby auction [possibly some via Wareham]

Sotheby catalogues, Bodleain Library

 

May

1

Anthropological Institute meeting, Lane Fox present and contributes to discussion

JAI, 1, (1872): 122-43

 

May

4

Lane Fox exhibits Cypriote artefacts at a meeting of Society of Antiquaries, Piccadilly

Karageorghis, V., Cypriote Art in the PRM, 2009 Nicosia

 

May

18 to end May

Lane Fox contributes and helps organize Palaeolithic Exhibition held at Society of Antiquaries, Piccadilly with A.W. Franks

Chapman, 1981: 342

 

May

29

Anthropological Institute meeting, Lane Fox present and contributes to discussion

JAI, 1, (1872): 192-207

 

June

21

Anthropological Institute meeting, Lane Fox present and contributes to discussion

JAI, 1, (1872): 221-6

 

June

No days

Items acquired from unknown source from Norfolk

PRM accession book

 

July

3

Lane Fox purchases Cesnola material, Sotheby auction

Sotheby catalogues, Bodleain Library

 

August

6

Lane Fox at British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Edinburgh

Manchester Guardian 6 August 1871

 

August

No days

Items acquired from Calais, France

PRM accession book

 

September

No days

Items acquired from Norfolk

PRM accession book

 

September

No days

Items acquired from Acton gravels

PRM accession book

 

September

4

Items acquired from Northern France

PRM accession book

 

October

4

Items acquired from Northern France

PRM accession book

 

November

6

Anthropological Institute meeting, Lane Fox present and contributes to discussion

JAI, 1, (1872): 268-74

 

November

No days

Items obtained from Guildford

PRM accession book

 

November

No days

Lane Fox contributes and helps organize Neolithic Exhibition held at Society of Antiquaries, Piccadilly; gives introductory lecture

Chapman, 1981: 344, The Times 22 November 1871

 

December

 

 

 

 

No month

No day

Lane Fox elected vice-president Society of Antiquaries, 1871-1874

Thompson, 1977: 124; Chapman, 1981: 131

 

No month

No day

Lane Fox obtains items from Meyrick's collection of weapons

Chapman

 

No month

No days

Lane Fox joins Royal Institution

Chapman, 1981: 78

 

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