Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1898.
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 Ancient and barbaric stages of culture compared with advanced civilization in Hilary Term | Alison Brown pers comm. | |
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| March | ||||
| April | No day | Tylor lectures on Anthropology of ancient civilized nations in Trinity Term | Alison Brown pers comm. | |
| April | 24 | Tylors and Pitt-Rivers at University lecture | University of California Tylor papers | |
| May | 23 | Pitt-Rivers states Oxford was never right place for founding collection | L2096 S&SWM Pitt-Rivers Papers | |
| June | ||||
| July | by | Tylor receives proof copy of Spencer and Gillen's Native Tribes of Central Australia | Ackerman 1987: 160; Mulvaney et al, 1997: 233 | |
| August | ||||
| September | 28 | Balfour writes to W.B. Spencer on letter paper headed with a printed heading 'Ethnographical Department / (Pitt Rivers Collection) / University Museum, Oxford' | PRM ms collections Spencer papers Box 4 Balfour letter 5 | |
| September | No day | Tylor writes to R.H. Hall of Hudson Bay Company to discuss possibility of acquiring a totem pole for Pitt Rivers Museum | PRM ms collections Tylor papers H3 | |
| October | No day | J.T. Long, museum assistant since Museum opened, resigns to work in the Anatomical Department | University Gazette 19 June 1900 p 694 Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1898-9 | |
| October | 3 | Balfour writes to Vice-Chancellor applying for renewal of grant for PRM. Draws attention to the many improvements at museum since last grant 7 years before. He asks for increase in grant to £200 p.a. as he cannot keep trained assistants on the wages he can pay | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM | |
| October | 6 | Vice-Chancellor writes to Balfour to inform he that he has passed his letter of 3.10.1898 to his successor elect with a plea that the work of the museum should not be hampered for lack of funds | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM | |
| October | 25 | Notice of 2 decrees, that a grant for the museum be awarded for a further 7 years until 31.12.1905 and that the grant of £150 p.a. be authorised for maintenance as before | University Gazette | |
| October | 27 | Letter from Balfour to Vice-Chancellor expressing hope that the passing of the 2 decrees will not proclude raising of grant later and repeating his problems of staff retention. Ask for the appointment of a committee to look into arrangements at other museums | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM | |
| October | 27 | Letter from Vice-Chancellor to Balfour informing him that the question of the grant will come before Hebdomadal Council next term | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM | |
| October | No day | Tylor lectures on Development of culture - arts of life in Michaelmas Term | Alison Brown pers comm. | |
| November | 1 | Notice that 2 above decrees passed in Congregation | University Gazette; PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM | |
| December | ||||
| Unspecified | Tylor reappointed Reader in Social Anthropology for further five years | Relational Museum timelines | ||
| Unspecified | Tylor starts process of acquiring totem poles for Pitt Rivers Museum | Relational Museum timelines | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour writes to friend Baldwin Spencer that he is trying to build up the Museum's photographic collections | Relational Museum timelines | ||
| Unspecified | Writing and publication of annual report for 1898 delayed by Balfour's illness in 1899 | Annual Report 1898-9 | ||
| Unspecified | The Tylors travel to Switzerland | Megan Price pers comm. |
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