Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1907.
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 | Balfour gives series of lectures on 'Early Stages of Art and Knowledge' in Tylor's absence, from illness | Annual Report 1907 | |
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| April | No day | Tylor lectures on Races of mankind in Trinity Term | Alison Brown pers comm | |
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| July | 10 | Balfour and his wife Edith leave London for Southern Africa | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1907 / Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 10 | Balfour arrives at Beria, Mozambique via Dar-es-salaam | Fran Larson pers comm./ Annual Report 1907 | |
| August | 16 | Balfour arrives at Victoria Falls travelling via Bulawayo | Fran Larson pers comm./ Annual Report 1907 | |
| September | 1 | Balfour travels to Kafue and Kalomo | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 14 | Balfour travels back to Bulawayo | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 18 | Balfour travels to Cape Town where he meets up with Edith Balfour, they leave for Europe on the same day | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| October | 4 | Balfour arrives back in Europe, on this date he is off the coast of France | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| October | No day | First Diploma students admitted in Michaelmas Term, Barbara Freire-Marreco, Francis Howe Seymour Knowles, James Arthur Harley, Frederic Charles Joseph Marius Barbeau | Relational Museum timelines | But see earlier with regard to Freire Marreco and Knowles |
| October | No day | Tylor lectures on [announced] Anthropological evidence in history (especially classical) in Michaelmas Term | Alison Brown pers comm | |
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| December | ||||
| Unspecified | Tylor awarded Huxley medal by Royal Anthropological Institute | Relational Museum timelines | ||
| Unspecified | Friends and wellwishers decide to offer Tylor volume of essays to celebrate his 75th birthday | Ackerman, 1987: 185 | ||
| Unspecified | Extension provided to working rooms for Museum, by adding the room which would later become the Curator's office until the new extension was built in the 2000s and the basement which was later used by collections management staff until the 2000s. | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1907 | ||
| Unspecified | Diploma students taught about Prehistoric Archaeology and Comparative Technology | Annual Report 1907 | ||
| Unspecified | Green shed built for Dept of Engineering Science by side of Pitt Rivers Museum | Relational Museum timelines | It would later form part of PRM | |
| Unspecified | Committee for Anthropology granted power to award certificates in Physical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology. It requires a candidate to have been engaged in the study of Physical Anthropology or of Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology either with Archaeology and Technology, or with Sociology) for a period of three months. The regulations also allow for a candidate to earn a Diploma by an accumulation of all three Certificates over a number of years | Relational Museum timelines; Peter Rivière; Examination Statutes 1907: 259-60, 262 | ||
| Unspecified | Marett becomes secretary of the Committee for Anthropology | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: archery, medicine / surgery | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1907 | ||
| Unspecified | Tylor ill during Hilary Term | Annual Report 1907 | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour publishes 'monograph' on the 'Fire Piston' (in a presentation volume for Tylor) | Annual Report 1907 | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour publishes paper on the friction drum for the Journal of the Anthropological Institute | Annual Report 1907 |
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