Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1857.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
| Month | Day | Event | Source of Information | Notes |
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| March | 24 | John Phillips, the geologist, appointed Keeper of OUMNH (and Ashmolean) | Ovenell, 1986: 216 | |
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| June | 18 | A new statute, 'De Custode Ashmoleani' is passed in Convocation; the Keeper of the Ashmolean is also to be the keeper of the OUMNH, he would be appointed by the Delegates of the OUMNH subject to the approval of Convocation. Another statute, 'De Museo Ashmoleani' was also passed by which the Delegates of the OUMNH became the Vistors of the Ashmolean also | Source unknown | |
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| Unspecified | Acland appointed as Regius professor of medicine | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | For eight months Rolleston is assistant physician at Hospital for Sick children, London | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Rolleston becomes Lee's Reader in Anatomy, and physician to Radcliffe Infirmary | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Tylor travels to Germany and possibly to France | Relational Museum timelines / Megan Price pers comm | ||
| Unspecified | 'a special meeting of the Trustees considered the proposal for removing the scientific portion of the books from the Radcliffe Library to the new Museum in rooms in the charge of Dr. Acland' | Davies and Hull 1975 Zoological Collections | ||
| Unspecified | Hope offers £200 p.a. for upkeep of his Entomological collection as salary for special keeper, on condition that J.O. Westwood be appointed (which he was). | Vernon, 1909: 63 |
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