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