Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1860.
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| Month | Day | Event | Source of Information | Notes |
| January | No day | Publication of second edition of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin | Wikipedia | |
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| June | 30 | Debate between T.H. Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce (among others) at the British Association for the Advancement of Science [BAAS] meeting held in Oxford. The discussion was held in the OUMNH | This Natural History Museum website | Following the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species |
| June | Unspecified | The Trustees authorized Acland to plan the move of books from Radcliffe Library to the new museum | Davies and Hull 1975 Zoological Collections | |
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| [Winter] | The Tylors spend winter in France, also travel to Greece | Relational Museum website / Megan Price pers comm. | ||
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| Unspecified | OUMNH structural building work completed | Relational Museum website | ||
| Unspecified | Museum House built. | Relational Museum website | Residential accommodation for OUMNH Keeper | |
| Unspecified | John Phillips appointed Professor in Geology, University of Oxford | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Rolleston appointed first Linacre professor of anatomy and physiology | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Scientific collections moved from Christ Church to OUMNH, as a loan | Coote, 2004: 7 | ||
| Unspecified | Scientific collections moved from Christ Church to OUMNH from 1860-1866 | Davies and Hull 1975 Zoological Collections | ||
| Unspecified | Natural history collections moved from the Ashmolean Museum to the OUMNH; George Rowell rearranges Ashmolean Museum displays now there is more space. The Ashmolean Museum (now Museum of History of Science, Broad Street) remodelled with a new staircase, entrance etc. The work and rearrangement took until 1864 to be completed | Macgregor, 2000: 255; Rowell letter to Oxford Times circa April 1880, Ovenell papers Ashmolean Museum RFO/A/3/11 2nd printed pamphlet page 16, Letter from Rowell to Oxford Times 16 July 1881 [also RFO/A/3/11] |
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