Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1933.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
Note: From 1933-34 Annual Reports for the Museum changed from being reports for single years (albeit written in the succeeding year, and often with references to events within that year) to annual reports for a split year, that is to say the events listed below largely come from the Annual Report for 1933-34. Because most events listed in the annual reports (which are written as narrative prose rather than in tabular format) are undated, it is not easy to be sure if things happened later in 1933 or early in 1934. For that reason for this date on all events should be presumed to probably have happened in either (whichever year they are recorded in) UNLESS they are specifically dated.
| Month | Day | Event | Source of Information | Notes |
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| February | 2 | Balfour describes his teaching load and contents of lectures as part of his response to the draft 'Memorandum on the position and prospects of anthropological studies at Oxford' Myres, Marett, Balfour and others were preparing | PRM ms collections J.P. Mills P, MSS. 80 | |
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| June | 21 | Balfour leaves London for Finland and Norway | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| June | 26 | Balfour arrives Helsingfors | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 2 | Balfour leaves Helsingfors | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 3 | Balfour arrives Savonlinna | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 9 | Balfour sails to Boris Gleb [sic] | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 10 | Balfour arrives Elvenaes and then travels around alone | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 20 | Balfour arrives Trondheim | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 21 | Balfour north of Bergen | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
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| Unspecified [late in year] | Balfour suffers from neuritis in his wrists which makes writing and museum difficult | PRM ms collections J.P. Mills correspondence |
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| Unspecified | Arthur Thomson resigns as Dr Lee's Professor of Human and Comparative Anatomy | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Francis Howe Seymour Knowles continues voluntary work on surgical and medical appliances card catalogue series and continues work on Balfour's collection of lighting appliances | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1933-34 | ||
| Unspecified | Antoinette Powell-Cotton volunteers cataloguing footwear onto cards | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1933-34 | ||
| Unspecified | Electrical light is installed in the Green shed | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1933-34 | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour again complains of lack of space, specifically storage space, in Museum in annual report | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1933-34 | ||
| Unspecified | Several wall screens are installed in Museum House for storage | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour continues to work on the Westlake collection | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Fire-arms | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1933-34 | ||
| Throughout year | Myres, Marett, Balfour and others preparing draft 'Memorandum on the position and prospects of anthropological studies at Oxford' | Frances Larson pers comm | ||
| Unspecified | E.S. Thomas working on card catalogue and on 'making special lists of groups of Museum material' (it is not clear what is meant by this) | Annual Report 1933-34 |
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