Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1940.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
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| Unspecified | Blackwood's appointment as Demonstrator is renewed for 4 more years | Frances Larson pers comm | ||
| Unspecified | Penniman takes advantage of war to purchase many of the objects flooding onto market as result of world war | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1940-41 | ||
| Unspecified | Wirenetting spread under glass roof funded by University Chest | Annual Report 1940-41 | ||
| Unspecified | Henry John Walters retires and is replaced by son Henry Frederick Walters | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1940-41 | ||
| Unspecified | Blackwood compiles catalogue of museum's lantern slides | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1940-41 | ||
| Unspecified | Very large number of volunteers work in museum: Mr Gibbs, F.H.S. Knowles, A.S. Barnes, A.D. Lacaille, S. Hazzledine Warren, R.J.C. Atkinson, Miss J. Watters, Mrs Meinhard, Mrs Maspero, Mrs Clibborn, R.J.C. Atkinson, Kenneth Hutton, Major Pollard, Heinrich Meinhard | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report | ||
| Unspecified | Work continues on card catalogue system | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1940-41 | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Balkan Peasant work, Stone implements. Knowles, Barnes, Lacaille and Hazzledine Warren work on stone implements | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1940-41 | ||
| Unspecified | New storage cupboards provided funded by Maintenance Grant from University | Annual Report 1940-41 |
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