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A year in the life: 1885
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January |
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Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts |
Thompson, 1977: 125-6 |
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February |
14 |
Pitt-Rivers attends wedding in Kensington |
Morning Post 16 February 1885 p. 5 |
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February |
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Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts |
Thompson, 1977: 125-6 |
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February |
before 11 |
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford [PRM] founding collection still at South Kensington Museum [SKM] but packed into one room and no longer on display |
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March |
18 |
Pitt-Rivers lends object to exhibiton of works of art in Belgrave Square in aid of Girls Friendly Societies Club and Recreation Rooms for Factories |
Morning Post 18 February 1885 p. 5 |
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March |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts |
Thompson, 1977: 125-6 |
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Spring [no month] |
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Work begins on new extension to house PRM at Oxford |
Larson, 2007: 94 |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Pitt-Rivers' 58th birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate |
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April |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts |
Thompson, 1977: 125-6 |
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April |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers carries out inspection of Kit Coty House, Kent |
British Architect 23:16 17 April 1885 |
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May |
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June |
9 |
Pitt-Rivers at Natural History Museum, London for unveiling of Darwin memorial statue |
The Times 10 June 1885 |
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June |
mid on |
Displays of Pitt-Rivers' collection at SKM are closed. Transfer of objects from SKM to Oxford begins, action taken by Walter Baldwin Spencer and W.J. Hill. E.B. Tylor and H.N. Moseley also attend, Tylor staying at the Athenaeum as required. The collection is stored throughout Oxford on its arrival. |
OUMNH, E.B. Poulton mss. Letter from Moseley to Poulton; Larson, 2007: 94. University Archives, UC/FF/60/2/2 |
Spencer continues to work on transfer until he moves to Australia, latterly with Henry Balfour |
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July / September |
27 to 12 September |
London to Keswick for Stone Circle on Eskdale Moor, Ravenglass, Whitehaven, Penrith, Shap Stone Circles; Edinburgh, Castle Cary [sic] for Roman Wall], Woodhouse Lees to see Mrs. Fraser Tytler about Edm’s Hall], Oban for serpentine mound, Iona, Gairloch, Stornoway, Callernish [sic] Stones, Pictish Tower at Carloway, Barvas, Broch of Brogan, Morsgail (beehive houses), Garry-na-Hine, Cool, Strathpeffer, Kinnahaird, Tumulus near Loch Achilty, Vitrified fort at Knockfarrel, Stones at Clachan Gorach, Dingwall, Blackmuir on the Catsback near Strathpeffer, Golspie, Carril Broch, Thurso, Kirkwall, Ring of Brogar [sic], Stennis Stone Circle, Maeshow [sic], Broch of Lingrow [sic]; Sutherlandshire for Lairg, Altnahura [sic], Dun Creggan Broch, Dun of Dornadilla, Inverness for Kinchyle, Leys Circle, Craig Phadrig (vitrified fort); Aberdeen. |
PRM PR papers Box 3/1/1 account by PR of his travels as Inspector marked B5617/ 88 |
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July |
2 |
Spencer confirms to friend that that day they had completed transferring Pitt-Rivers collection to Oxford |
PRM ms collections: Spencer papers Box 3 Goulty 66 |
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August |
7 |
Pitt-Rivers bestows land on incumbent of parish of Handley |
London Gazette (25498: 3654) |
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September |
By 12th |
Pitt-Rivers at British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Aberdeen, reads paper on ancient remains and government plans to preserve them |
The Times 12 September 1885 |
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September |
No days |
First collections transferred from Ashmolean Museum to PRM |
Larson, 2007: 11 |
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October |
9 |
Pitt-Rivers attends interment of Earl of Shaftesbury at Wimborne St Giles, Dorset |
The Times 10 October 1885 |
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October |
11 |
Moseley writes to Balfour about employing him as his assistant to establish the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford |
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October |
28 |
Balfour begins work for PRM at Oxford |
Source unknown |
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November |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts |
Thompson, 1977: 126 |
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November |
No days |
Further collections transferred from Ashmolean Museum to PRM |
Larson, 2007: 96 |
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November |
24 |
Bridport Waterworks Company wants to build reservoirs on Pitt-Rivers' land |
London Gazette (25533: 5535) |
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December |
9 |
Pitt-Rivers buys objects at auction, list published |
The Times 9 December 1885 |
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December |
No days |
Pitt-Rivers excavating Woodcuts |
Thompson, 1977: 126 |
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Pitt-Rivers meets up with Tylors in Scotland [presumably either August or September] |
University of California Tylor diaries |
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Pitt-Rivers employs Francis Reader as assistant on Cranborne Chase excavations |
Thompson, 1977: 94 |
Thompson calls him G.W. Reader, Bowden disagrees about this date and gives 1881 |
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Pitt-Rivers forms the West Bay Land & Building Company with Henry Edward Fox-Strangways, the 5th Earl of Ilchester |
This is the only reference so far to a Pitt-Rivers company or his business interests |
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Pitt-Rivers joins Zoological Society |
Chapman, 1981: 78 |
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Suggested tentative date for first opening of Farnham Museum |
Thompson, 1977: 119 |
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Pitt-Rivers has definitely been diagnosed as having diabetes by this year (undergoing urine analysis) |
S&SWM PR papers, M1-23 |
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