Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1904.
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 | [It is not known if Tylor lectures in Hilary Term] | Alison Brown pers comm | |
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| April | No day | Tylor lectures on Prehistoric man in Trinity Term | Alison Brown pers comm | |
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| August - September | No days | Balfour president of the Anthropological Section of the BAAS meeting; Gives Presidential Address | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report / see PRM ms collections, Henry Balfour box 5 | |
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| October | No day | Tylor lectures on Anthropology in ancient history in Michaelmas Term | Alison Brown pers comm | |
| November | 4 | Notice of decree to be proposed in Convocation on 8.11.1904 thanking the BMA for their gift of the installation of electrics at PRM and that the curators of the University Chest be authorised to erect some record in the museum | University Gazette; PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of Museum | |
| November | 24 | Professor Poulton writes to Balfour about inter-departmental friction and feels PRM is no worse off than other departments, if Balfour does not appoint a chief assistant he must not complain of over-work, let him buy fewer cases | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of Museum | |
| December | 4 | Letter from Balfour to Professor Poulton, disclaiming any unfriendliness and saying that the PRM is larger and a public institution and its upkeep is therefore more onerous | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of Museum | |
| Unspecified | Balfour suffering from ill-health which hampers his museum work | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1904 | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour appointed Research Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford | Relational Museum timelines | ||
| Unspecified but by November at latest | Electric light installed in Museum, paid for by the British Medical Association's Executive Committee | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1904 | ||
| Unspecified | Further wall cases installed in Upper Gallery | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1904 | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Musical instruments, masks, boat-models, fire-making, clothing | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1904 | ||
| Unspecified | Francis Knowles, later a long-term volunteer at the museum, studies boomerangs at the museum | Annual Report 1904 | ||
| Unspecified | F.C. Carter takes 'numerous photographs' of objects, and prepares lantern-slides for lectures | Annual Report 1904 | ||
| Unspecified | The Tylors travel to Italy and Germany | Megan Price pers. comm. |
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