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Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1856.

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Month Day Event Source of Information Notes
January
February
[Spring] Tylor meets Henry Christy in Havana, Cuba and travels with him to Mexico Tylor in Alma Mater, ‘ The Gifford Lecturer’, 22 January 1890; DNB
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December No day Phillips is given a grant of £200 to catalogue and arrange the geological collections then held in the Clarendon Building Ovenell, 1986: 213 Ovenell refers to it as the Clarendon Geological Museum
Unspecified John Phillips made Reader in Geology DNB entry
Unspecified Tylor visits Cuba and Mexico Relational Museum timeline

  

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