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A year in the life: 1881
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?January |
?1 |
Pitt-Rivers exhibits 4 paintings in Royal Academy Exhibition of Old Masters |
Examiner 3806 Jan 8 1881; Art Journal (London) March 1881 p. 65 |
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January |
11 |
Pitt-Rivers attends AGM of Anthropological Institute, he is elected President |
Peter Rivière |
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February |
4 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to South Kensington Museum [SKM] |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
apparently items from 2 cases 'acknowledged' to P-R on 1 October 1878 [sic] |
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February |
8 |
Pitt-Rivers chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute |
Peter Rivière |
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February |
22 |
Pitt-Rivers meets W.M. Flinders Petrie in Egypt |
Bowden, 1991: 92-3 |
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February - March |
No days, March 3, 4 |
Pitt-Rivers takes Thomas Cook holiday in Egypt |
Thompson, 1977: 125; Bowden, 1991: 90. Dates from PRM accession book and Bowden |
P-R's archaeological work starts 4 August according to Bowden |
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March |
18 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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March |
31 |
HN Moseley writes to AW Franks about Westwood's suggestion that Pitt-Rivers offers his collection to the University of Oxford, asks him to write letter about the collection and its usefulness to Oxford to support suggestion |
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April |
5 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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April |
6 |
Pitt-Rivers elected to Athenaeum |
The Times 6 April 1881; Academy 466 (April 9 1881) |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Pitt-Rivers' 54th birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate |
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April |
30 |
Pitt-Rivers attends banquet at Royal Academy |
Morning Post 2 May 1881 p. 3 |
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Pitt-Rivers acquires artefacts from Anthropological Institute |
PRM accession book |
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May |
10 |
Pitt-Rivers chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute |
Peter Rivière |
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May |
11 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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May |
24 |
Pitt-Rivers chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute |
Peter Rivière |
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Pitt-Rivers reads paper on Man's objects in his own collection |
JAI 11, (1882): 268-294 |
[poss around now] |
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June |
2 |
Pitt-Rivers dines with Earl and Countess of Egmont |
Morning Post 3 June 1881 |
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June |
3 |
FR Sandford of SKM writes to Pitt-Rivers to tell him that the Lords of the Committee on Education have had to refuse his offer of the Pitt-Rivers collection and spells out reasons |
S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers P136a; the copy of the report they considered is here |
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June |
3 |
Items recorded as being removed from SKM by Pitt-Rivers |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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June |
12 |
Pitt-Rivers at sale of Egyptian material |
Alice Stevenson pers. comm. from Petrie's journal for 1877-1884 |
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June |
14 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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June |
14 |
Pitt-Rivers chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute, reads paper on discovery of stone tool in Egypt |
JAI, 11 (1882): 382-400 |
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June |
16 |
Death of George Rolleston |
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June |
20 |
Pitt-Rivers attends funeral of Rolleston at Oxford |
The Times 21 June 1881 |
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June |
27 |
Pitt-Rivers attends meeting of Anthropological Institute, talks to Flinders Petrie about Theban flints in gravel |
Alice Stevenson pers comm |
Query about date of AI meeting see next entry? |
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June |
28 |
Pitt-Rivers chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute, held at his home in Grosvenor Gardens. Makes remarks about death of Rolleston |
Peter Rivière; JAI, 11 (1882): 312-313 |
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July |
11 |
Pitt-Rivers in court for not fully paying a cab driver on 29 June 1881 |
The Times 12 July 1881, Lloyd's Weekly, 17 July 1881; Morning Post 12 July 1881 p. 7 |
Thanks to Stephen Briggs and Mark Bowden for the Lloyd's Weekly reference |
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July |
12 |
Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to SKM |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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July |
13 |
Pitt-Rivers attends Lady Holland's garden party |
Morning Post 15 July 1881 p. 5 |
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July |
25 |
Pitt-Rivers attends funeral of Dean Stanley (another in-law relative) at Westminster |
The Times 26 July 1881; Morning Post 26 July 1881 p. 5 |
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August |
1 |
Report of committee concerning Pitt-Rivers' request for his collection to be housed permanently at South Kensington Museum. Also letter published from Pitt-Rivers to the Daily News about the decline of his collection |
The Times 1 August 1881; Pitt-Rivers letter to Daily News |
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August |
9 |
Report of Parliamentary debate about Pitt-Rivers' request for his collection to be housed permanently at South Kensington Museum |
The Times 9 August 1881 |
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August |
31 |
Pitt-Rivers writes [apparently] to SKM authorities to tell them he has appointed a curator for his collection [This letter has not been identified by the RPR team] |
See S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers P131 14.12.1881 from GF Duncombe |
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Autumn, & no month |
No days |
SKM informs Pitt-Rivers that they will no longer accept items on loan |
Larson, 2007: 88 |
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September |
3 |
Pitt-Rivers presents paper on Egypt and Yorkshire at British Association for the Advancement of Science [BAAS] meeting at York |
The Times 3 September 1881 |
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September |
7 |
Pitt-Rivers at BAAS meeting in York, reference to committee of Galton, Flower and Pitt-Rivers on physical characteristics and proportions of Zulus exhibited at Westminster Acquarium |
The Times 7 September 1881 |
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September |
12 |
Pitt-Rivers is entertained at Fryston Hall, Yorkshire by Lord Houghton for previous 2 weeks with many influential people |
Morning Post 12 September 1881 |
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September |
20 |
Items recorded as being removed from SKM by Pitt-Rivers [2 separate receipts for this day] |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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September |
30 |
Items recorded as being removed from SKM by Pitt-Rivers |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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October |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers excavating at Winklebury Camp |
Thompson, 1977: 125; Bowden, 1991: 112 |
Note that this is sometimes spelt as Winkelbury |
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November |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers excavating at Winklebury Camp |
Thompson, 1977: 125; Bowden, 1991: 112 |
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November |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers carries out work at Carranty Rack, Rushmore Park on own estate. |
Bowden, 1991: 113 |
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December |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers excavating at Winklebury Camp |
Thompson, 1977: 125; Bowden, 1991: 112 |
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December |
14 |
Pitt-Rivers is asked not to send further additions to SKM collection because the tenure of these galleries near to Horticultural Gardens is uncertain, ask that the curator appointed by Pitt-Rivers prepare for early removal of collection in great haste |
S&SW Museum Pitt-Rivers manuscript collections P 131, letter from GF Duncombe to Pitt Rivers 14.12.1881 |
It is not known who this curator was, or whether he really had been appointed by Pitt-Rivers |
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Pitt-Rivers develops diabetes |
Pitt-Rivers to Tylor, 7 August 1898 PRM ms collections Tylor papers P11 |
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Pitt-Rivers published ‘On the discovery of chert implements in stratified gravel in the Nile Valley near Thebes’ JAI 11 [1881] 693; ‘Report on the excavation of the earthwork known as Ambresbury Banks Epping Forest’. Transactions of the Epping Forest and County Essex Natural Field Club 2 [1881] 55-68 also RBAAS [1881] 69; 'Letter on the employment of fire in canoe-making' Journal of Anthrop Inst (1881) 11: 290-1; 'On the death of Professor Rolleston' Journal of Anthrop Inst 11 (1881) 11:312-3 |
See journals |
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?Pitt-Rivers stops attending societies around 1881 |
Chapman, 1981: 443 |
Other evidence suggests that this date is too early |
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Pitt-Rivers carries out excavations at Carranty Rack, Park House, Shiftway Coppice and Sunk fence, Rushmore Park on own estate |
OW website |
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No days |
Frederick James. W.S. Tomkin and F.W. Reader employed as assistants to Pitt-Rivers in Cranborne Chase excavations |
Bowden, 1991: 104; Thompson, 1977: 94 |
Note Thompson gives 1882 for Tomkin and 1885 for Reader as start dates |
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No days |
Caretaker's house at Larmer Gardens built |
Dudley-Buxton, 1929: 13 |
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Details about the taxi fare debacle provided here.
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