A year in the life: 1898
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Pitt-Rivers' 71st birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate |
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April |
24 |
Tylors and Pitt-Rivers at University lecture |
Univ. of California Tylor papers |
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May |
5 |
Pitt-Rivers contributes to cost of portrait of Herbert Spencer |
The Times 5 May 1898 |
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May |
23 |
Pitt-Rivers states Oxford was never right place for founding collection |
L2096 S&SWM Pitt-Rivers Papers |
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circa June |
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Sometime during the early summer it seems clear that Pitt-Rivers was on holiday with his wife, possibly abroad |
References to him being away in several letters, mention of palazzo in L2137 S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers |
No confirmation of dates or venue yet obtained |
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Pitt-Rivers publishes fourth Cranborne Chase volume |
Thompson, 1977: 127 |
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Construction of Upper Indian house, Larmer Gardens |
Thompson, 1977: 80, 127 |
House obtained at 1890 Earls Court Indian Exhibition [Dudley Buxton, 1929: 14] |
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Pitt-Rivers elected vice-president of Anthropological Institute for year |
Peter Rivière |
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