Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1864.
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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| June | No date | Alterations to Ashmolean Museum after the transfer of zoological collections to OUMNH are completed | Ovenell, 1986: 219 | |
| June | 2 | Pitt-Rivers elected to Society of Antiquaries | Thompson, 1977: 32, 123; Chapman, 1981: Chapter 3 | On basis of his 'attachment to the study of Antiquities especially ancient arms and armour' |
| July | 17 | Tylor and wife resign from Quaker [Society of Friends] membership | Larson, 2010; Relational Museum timeline | |
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| September | Building work at Ashmolean Museum, Broad Street, completed (post the natural history collections moving to OUMNH). Rowell suggests that the museum, however, remained closed for a 'further year or two' to allow collections to be rearranged and examined. | Letter from Rowell to Oxford Times 16 July 1881 [Ashmolean Ovenell papers RFO/A/3/11] | Exact date of 're-opening' of Ashmolean Museum unknown | |
| October | No day | Moseley enters Exeter College, Oxford. His family hoped that he would study mathematics or classics but eventually he chose to study with Rolleston in Anatomy department | DNB entry | |
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| Unspecified | Tylors living in London | Relational Museum timeline | ||
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| Unspecified |
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