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Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1851.

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Month Day Event Source of Information Notes
January
February
March
April
May  1 Great Exhibition opened by Queen Victoria in London This website
June
July
August
September
October  15  Great Exhibition closes This website
November
December
Unspecified Acland appointed Radcliffe librarian at Oxford DNB entry
Unspecified Pitt-Rivers begins collecting ethnographic and archaeological artefacts (notably locks and keys) Chapman, 1981; Thompson, 1977: 122; Pitt-Rivers, 1883: title page
Unspecified Rolleston studies medicine at St Bartholomew's in London DNB entry

 

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