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Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1868.

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Month Day Event Source of Information Notes
January 14 Pitt-Rivers resigns from Council of Anthropological Society JAS, 6 (1868): lxv-lxxvi
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May 19 Pitt-Rivers appointed Hon. Sec. of Ethnological Society Chapman, 1981: 286
May 26 Pitt-Rivers attends demonstration of boomerang throwing at Kennington Common, London Chapman, 1981: 186-7; website
June 5 Pitt-Rivers second lecture on 'Primitive Warfare' given at USI Thompson, 1977: 124, Chapman, 1981: 287
July No day Pitt-Rivers joins BAAS Chapman, 1981: 78, 644
July No day Pitt-Rivers elected to join organizing committee for BAAS meeting and Congres International d'Anthropologie and Archeologie Prehistoriques Chapman, 1981: 293
August 20-28 BAAS meeting at Norwich and Congres International d'Anthropologie and Archeologie Prehistoriques London. Pitt-Rivers and Tylor both present Thompson, 1977: 124; Chapman, 1981: 293-6; Bowden, 1991: 73; Relational Museum timeline
August No day  Moseley awarded first class degree in the natural science schools DNB entry
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Unspecified Christ Church Anatomy School refitted into chemical laboratory Davies and Hull 1975 Zoological Collections

 

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