Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1861.
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 | Initial installation of natural history collections at OUMNH completed | Relational Museum website | ||
| Unspecified | Pitt-Rivers elected to membership of the Ethnological Society of London, early in year. He attends his first meeting in the Autumn of the same year | Chapman, 1981 Chapter 4; Thompson, 1977: 33 Chapman, 1981: 174 and on; Chapman, 1981: 616 | ||
| Unspecified | Tylor published Anahuac, or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Acland completes move of books from Radcliffe Library to new museum | Davies and Hull 1975 Zoological Collections | ||
| Unspecified | Rowell starts working as assistant at both the Ashmolean Museum and the University Museum at the request of Revd R. Greswell. At OUMNH he worked as assistant to Professor Phillipps in the Zoological Department, and worked from 10 am- 5 pm. He worked on the transfer of natural history specimens from the Ashmolean Musuem and also their redisplay at the OUMNH. | Ovenell papers, Ashmolean Musuem RFO/A/3/11 Ovenell transcriptions p. 73-4 |
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