Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1893.
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 | No day | Tylor lectures on the Anthropology of social and political institutions during Hilary Term | Alison Brown pers comm. | |
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| April | No day | Tylor lectures on the Anthropology of moral and religious institutions | Alison Brown pers comm. | |
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| October | No day | Tylor lectures on the Races of Mankind as classified by language, civilization and history in Michaelmas Term | Alison Brown pers comm. | |
| October | No day | Balfour gives first official series of lectures at Pitt Rivers Museum, on 'the various Arts of Mankind' in Michaelmas term | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1893 / 13 June 1893, University Gazette XXIII: 603 | |
| October | No day | Arthur Thomson, lecturer in Human Anatomy, gave first official lectures on physical anthropology | Relational Museum timelines / 13 June 1893, University Gazette XXIII: 603 | |
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| Unspecified | Balfour published The Evolution of Decorative Art | Relational Museum timelines | ||
| Unspecified | Thomson appointed extraordinary professor of human anatomy at Oxford | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, Pottery, Writing, Magic/ charms, Lighting, Smoking / narcotics, Death, Burmese manuscripts. There is some rearrangement of existing displays as well as new displays | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1893 | ||
| Unspecified | The Tylors travel to Switzerland | Megan Price pers comm. | ||
| Unspecified | Marett becomes sub-rector of Exeter College, Oxford and tutor in philosophy | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Marett wins the Green Moral Philosophy Prize with an essay on 'The Ethics of Savage Races' | Peter Rivière |
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