Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place between 1840 and 1849.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
| Year | Specific date | Event | Source of Information | Notes |
| 1840 | Unspecified | Acland graduates with BA | DNB entry | |
| 1840 | Unspecified | Acland elected to All Souls fellowship and studies medicine at St George's Hospital, London | DNB entry | |
| 1841 | Unspecified | Honours School of Natural Science first suggested by Dr Ogle, Clinical Professor [1830-1851] Regius Professor, in a letter to Warden of Wadham 'On the system of examinations as pursued in Oxford, with suggestions for remodelling the Examination Statutes'. | Vernon 1909: 28 | |
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| 1844 | 14 November | Henry Nottidge Moseley born | DNB entry | |
| 1845 | Unspecified | University Galleries opened in Beaumont Street to display University of Oxford's fine art collections | Relational Museum timeline | |
| 1845 | Unspecified | Henry Acland appointed as Dr Lee's Readership in Anatomy at Christ Church, he worked in college's Anatomy Museum [Note: Vernon 1909 gives date as 1847] | Learning More on Oxford University Museum of Natural History [OUMNH] website - Museum Architecture; DNB entry | |
| 1846 | Unspecified | Acland completes medical degree | DNB entry | |
| 1846 | Unspecified | Rolleston wins open scholarship to Pembroke College, Oxford | DNB entry | |
| 1847 | Unspecified | BAAS meeting held in Oxford, Acland is secretary | DNB entry; Vernon 1909: 39 | |
| 1847 | Unspecified | At BAAS meeting Acland suggests 'that a new museum with lecture rooms and a library should be erected by the University for the teaching of Natural Science'. Immediatly after meeting a memorandum is circulated by Daubeny, Duncan, Acland and Walker to members of the University | Davies and Hull, 1975 Zoological Collection; Vernon 1909: 40 | |
| 1847 | Unspecified | Acland elected Fellow of the Royal Society | DNB entry | |
| 1848 | Unspecified | Tylor begins work in family foundry | DNB entry | |
| 1848 | November | Acland publishes 'Remarks on the Extension of Education in the University of Oxford' addressed to Revd William Jacobson, Regius Professor of Divinity, which proposed that all students should study science | History of Oxford University 19th century part 1: 646 | |
| 1848 | Unspecified | Daubeny publishes pamphlet 'Brief remarks on the correlation of the natural sciences' and contained a syllabus of scientific instruction for the general and special student, 'he laid down the principle that no student should be allowed to specialize in any one branch without showing an elementary knowledge of the primary sciences'. Walker also published a pamphlet on the same issue, 'A letter addressed to the Rev. the Vice Chancellor on Improvements in the Present Examination Statute and the Studies of the University'. | Vernon, 1909: 47; History of Oxford University 19th century part 1: 646 | |
| 1849 | Unspecified | Acland 'engineered a resolution to the effect that, in view of the entirely inadequate provision for the teaching of Natural Science, and the chaotic condition of the University’s scientific collections, a museum should be built to assemble “all the materials explanatory of the structure of the earth, and of the organic beings placed upon it’, together with teaching accommodation.' | [Howell, 2000: 739] | |
| 1849 | 1 May | Convocation meeting discusses idea of establishing new museum. Meeting held at New College. Davies and Hull write: 'Those in favour of the proposal to build a new museum met at New College in May 1849 and an action committee was formed, M.H. Nevil Story-Maskelyne becoming the Secretary of this committee formed to promote the scheme for building a University Museum...''. Vernon says that the committee was made up of Dr Williams, Dr Jacobson, Acland, Daubeny, W.F. Donkin, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Rev. Baden Powell, Savilian Professor of Geometry, Manuel Johnson, the Radcliffe Observer, Charles Marriot, A.P. Stanley and W. Thomson. Vernon also says that 'within a short time' the committee had grown to more than 60 people including Buckland, Bishop Wilberforce, Pusey etc. | [Vernon-Harcourt 1910, 5] [Berry, 2003: 225]; Davies and Hull 1975 Zoological Collections; Vernon 1909: 49 et seq | [may be what is being referred to in entry above too?] |
| 1849 | 19 June | Meeting held in Sheldonian Theatre about the proposals for a new museum | Vernon 1909: 51 |
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