Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1910.
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 | Proof of the report of the Committee establlished to consider the stipend of the Curator of the PRM, agreeing it is quite inadequate and referring to his extra duties teaching in the diploma. Recommends that his salary is increased to £500, or if he is elected to a Fellowship £600. That a college fellowship be awarded to him in recognition of his long and distinguished service | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM | |
| February | 24/ 25 | Letter from E.B. Elliot for the Delegates to Balfour to inform him that at meeting on 24.2.1910 the Delegates ordered that £300 p.a. be paid to him from Common University Fund for period of 3 years until 31.12.12 |
PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM |
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| June | 25 | Balfour leaves Southampton to again visit South Africa, he gives a lecture tour at the request of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1910 / Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 1 | Robert Ranulph Marett replaces Tylor as Reader in Anthropology | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report; Evans-Pritchard 1953: 18; DNB entry; Peter Rivière OUG 1910-11: 414-15 | |
| July | 12 | Balfour arrives in Cape Town, South Africa | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1910 / Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 15 | Balfour gives first lecture of two at Cape Town | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 21 | Balfour gives 3 lectures in Port Elizabeth | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| July | 28 | Balfour gives lecture in Grahamstown and visits rock shelters in area | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 3 | Balfour arrives in East London where he lectures and hunts for stone implements | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 7 | Balfour travels to Durban | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 11 | Balfour arrives at Maritzburg and gives lecture | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 15 | Balfour arrives at Ladysmith and gives lecture | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| August | 21 | Balfour arrives at Johannesburg via Bloemfontein and Kimberley | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 7 | Balfour leaves Johannesburg | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1910 | |
| September | 10 | Balfour arrives at Victoria Falls where he hunts for stone tools | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 22 | Balfour arrives at Bulawayo | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 25 | Balfour arrives at Cape Town | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 28 | Balfour boards ship for journey back to Europe | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
| October | 15 | Balfour arrives back in Oxford from southern Africa | Fran Larson pers comm. | |
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| December | No day | Tylor retires as Professor of Social Anthropology, and returns to Wellington Somerset to live. He is given title of emeritus professor | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report | |
| Unspecified | Tylor appointed Emeritus Professor | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Magic / charms, ex-voto figures | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report | ||
| Unspecified | John Linton Myres appointed Wykeham professor of ancient history | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Anthropological training given for probationers for the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | Peter Rivière; OUG 1910-11: 415 |
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| Unspecified | Balfour writes to Vice-Chancellor in reply to a request from Council for a statement of his views on policy for Museum suggesting Anthropology be divided into 3 division, Physical Anthropology, Technology and prehistory, and Sociology, each with a specialist in charge and a permanent Chair overall. [there is also a draft version of same information] | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM |
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