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Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1863.

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Month Day Event Source of Information Notes
January
February
March No day E.B. Tylor joins Anthropological Society of London Chapman, 1981: 232
April 11 Henry Balfour born DNB entry
May
June No day The Tylors spend June to September in Scotland Megan Price pers comm.
July
August
September
October No day Pitt-Rivers nominated for membership of Society of Antiquaries Chapman, 1981: 130; Thompson, 1977: 32
November
December
Unspecified First complaints made about insufficiency of space at OUMNH Relational Museum website; Fox, 1997: 673

 

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