Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1901.
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 Social and political and religious institutions of the ancient civilized nations, as compared with those of savage and barbaric peoples in Hilary and Trinity Terms | Alison Brown pers comm | |
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| March | No day | Harold St George Gray takes up appointment as Curator of Taunton Museum | University Gazette 17 June 1902 p 634 | |
| April | No day | Tylor lectures on Social and political and religious institutions of the ancient civilized nations, as compared with those of savage and barbaric peoples in Hilary and Trinity Terms | Alison Brown pers comm | |
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| October | No day | Tylor lectures on Race, language and civilization in Michaelmas Term | Alison Brown pers comm | |
| November | No day | Totem poles acquired by Tylor are set up in the Pitt Rivers Museum by Symm and Co., the installation costs were paid by Tylor | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1901; Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| November | 22 | Tylor gives lecture on Totems and Totemism in the museum | The Oxford Magazine 27.11.1901 Vol. XX, no. 7, pp. 109-9 | |
| December | ||||
| Unspecified | ||||
| Unspecified | Tylor lectures on totems and totemism, probably in the OUMNH Oxford | Relational Museum timelines | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, Pottery, Archery, Bronze Age implements, Spear throwers | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1901 | ||
| Unspecified | John Linton Myres inaugurates RAI's Man, its monthly periodical, and is its first editor 1901-3 | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | The Tylors travel to France and Scotland | Megan Price pers comm. |
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