Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1924.
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 | 30 | Balfour writes to Vice-Chancellor to protest at omission of his name from list of those whose salaries are to be raised considerably, as some people on list are junior to him. He accuses the University of exploiting him | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM | |
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| May | 14 | Balfour writes to Vice-Chancellor again [see 30.1.1924] as he has had no reply | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM | |
| May | 17 | Vice-Chancellor writes to Balfour regretting his feelings of injustice but the awards cannot be altered | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM | |
| May | 19 | Balfour writes to Vice-Chancellor expressing shock at outcome and reiterates injustice | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM | |
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| [Summer] | Balfour travels through Canada by train | see PRM ms collections J.P. Mills correspondence, 17 March 1924, 25 August 1924 and 18 October 1924 | ||
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| September | 13 | Blackwood sails from Liverpool to USA | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| September | 23 | Blackwood arrives in New York | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| October | 6 | Blackwood moves to Princeton, and is given lab space in Psychology Department under Professor Brigham | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
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| December | No day | Blackwood spends Christmas in Atlantic City | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| December | 27 | Blackwood travels to Washington DC for American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting | Frances Larson pers comm. | |
| Unspecified | Beatrice Blackwood is awarded a Laura Spelman Rockefeller fellowship, begins 3 year fieldwork project in North America again working on anthropometrical studies | DNB entry; Frances Larson pers comm | ||
| Unspecified but around May | Balfour elected Fellow of the Royal Society | Relational Museum timelines; fellowship mentioned in letter dated 19.5.1924 in PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 | ||
| Unspecified | Sometime in early 1920s Ernest Seymour Thomas starts work at PRM, as the assistant to Balfour, probably in 1924-5. His first mention in annual report is in 1924 | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1924 | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour spends most of the year working on the Westlake collection of stone tools | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1924 | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Blow-guns, Spears, work in Lower Gallery | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1924 | ||
| Unspecified | Carline continues as Assistant Curator, concentrating on labelling | Annual Report 1924 |
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