Vol. XXX
October 13, 1899, pg 22
Professor will lecture at the Museum on the Classification of Mankind by Race, Language and Civilization
November 7, 1899, pg 108
Decree for £170 to be spent on cases for the PRM, carried Nov 14, 1899
November 14, 1899, pg 122
Decree for £170 to be spent on cases for the PRM, carried Nov 21, 1899
January 19, 1900, pg 223
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Anthropology in Ancient Literature
April 27, 1900, pg 437
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Early Stages of Civilization (Arts of Subsistence and Protection)
June 19, 1900, pg 692
Twelfth Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1899)
General Report: Junior Scientific Club, Oxfordshire Natural History Society, Series of Christmas lectures for children on subjects of natural sciences (organised by ONHS), Oxford Camera Club, Oxford Medical Society
Balfour report, pg 694-703 – see PHOTOCOPY
Report of the Professor of Anthropology:
The class each term varied from 4 to 6 undergraduates, ‘with a less number of lady students, and visitors’
Mr. David Mc Iver gave his important collection of ancient Egyptian skulls – tabulated measurements of these were brought before the Anthropological Section of the British Association at Dover. Now placed in the Department of Human Anatomy.
Vol. XXXI
October 12, 1900, pg 26
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Development of Language, Writing, Arithmetic
January 18, 1901, pg 253
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Social, Political and Religious Institutions of the Ancient Civilized Nations, as compared with those of Savage and Barbaric Peoples
April 19, 1901, pg 461
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Social, Political and Religious Institutions of the Ancient Civilized Nations, as compared with those of Savage and Barbaric Peoples (continued)
June 4, 1901, pg 649
Thirteenth Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1900)
General Report: Oxford Medical Society, Junior Scientific Club, Oxfordshire Natural History Society, Christmas lectures for children, Oxford Camera Club
Balfour report, pg 651-662 – see PHOTOCOPY
Report of the Professor of Anthropology:
class was small, terminal entries varying from three to ten members of the University and three to eight non-members. ‘There appeared to be some tendency among students of Ancient Literature to avail themselves of the help of Anthropology.’
Vol. XXXII
October 11, 1901, pg 26
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Race, Language and Civilization
November 19, 1901, pg 163
Professor will deliver a public lecture at the Museum on Friday, November 22, at 5pm on ‘Totems and Totemism’ with special reference to the Totem-Post from British Columbia, lately erected in the PRM.
January 17, 1902, pg 256
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Anthropological Evidence in Ancient Literature
February 18, 1902, pg 346
Decree that the curators of the Bodleian Library be authorized to transfer on revocable deposit to the Pitt-Rivers Collection the weapons now kept in a window-case at the end of the Picture Gallery, given in 1860 by Mr. J.B. Elliott of Patna. Carried, February 25, 1902 (pg 356).
April 25, 1902, pg 437
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Early Stages of Civilization (Language, Writing, Arithmetic etc.)
June 17, 1902, pg 632
Fourteenth Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1901)
‘In the summer term, an amalgamation took place between the Ashmolean Society, which from about 1866 had met in the University Museum, and the Oxfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, the new Society being styled the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire, and Mr. Henry Balfour being the first President. It is satisfactory that the old Ashmolean Society, with its record in the scientific history of Oxford reaching as far back as 1832, will not be allowed to drop out of memory.’
Junior Scientific Club, Oxford Brass Rubbing Society heard lecture by President of Society of Antiquaries, Oxford Camera Club.
Balfour report, pg 634-638 – see PHOTOCOPY
Tylor report – class averaged about five members of the University, with about twice as many lady students and visitors.
Vol. XXXIII
October 17, 1902, pg 29
Professor Tylor will lecture at Museum on Outlines of Anthropology
January 16, 1903, pg 243
Professor Tylor will lecture at Museum on Race Language and Civilization
April 24, 1903, pg 433
Professor Tylor will lecture at Museum on Development of Letters, Numerals, Weights and Measures
Fifteenth Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1902)
‘In March 1902, the Delegates received the resignation of Prof. E.B. Tylor, Hon. D.C.L., F.R.S., who had held the office of Keeper of the University Museum since the year 1883. At the meeting of March 4, the Delegates expressed their sense of the high value of his long and assiduous service, and of the distinguished personal and scientific gifts which he had throughout the whole period placed at the disposal of all concerned with the Museum.
‘The Keeper had always acted as Secretary to the Delegates, and with the retirement of Professor Tylor the office of Keeper has been, by an alteration of the University Statues, abolished, and is replaced by that of Secretary; to this office Prof. H.A. Miers, F.R.S., has been appointed.’
Junior Scientific Club, Ashmolean Natural History Society, Christmas lectures for children, Oxford Camera Club
Balfour report pg 544-548 – see PHOTOCOPY
Tylor report: ‘The attendence list includes 14 members of the University, and strangers.’
Vol. XXXIV
October 16, 1903, pg 24
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Anthropological Reconstruction of History
November 3, 1903, pg 115
Tylor re-appointed Reader in Anthropology, for five years from December 31, 1903
February 23, 1904, pg 385
Decree giving Pitt-Rivers Dept. £50 for assistance and general expenses (Hope Dept of Zoology got £50, Dept of Geology £25, Dept of Mineralogy £25). Carried March 8 (pg 414)
April 22, 1904, pg 483
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Prehistoric Man
May 3, 1904, pg 537
Sixteenth Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1903)
Shelving and fittings removed during the renovations of the Old Radcliffe Library into rooms for Professors have been distributed to other departments. In the PRM intended to convert the fittings into exhibition cases.
Roof of PRM has been leaking constantly. Glass on south span entirely removed, cords in metal channels on which glass sheets rested were decayed and replaced by asbestos, other repairs made before glass replaced.
Junior Scientific Club, Ashmolean Natural History Society, Christmas Lectures for Children inc ‘Some Toys and Games’ by Balfour, Oxford Camera Club
Balfour report pg 556-560 – see PHOTOCOPY
Tylor Report ‘His class was small and variable, but there is some reason to think that the lectures have had some effect in promoting the study of Anthropology, which has increased in Oxford as elsewhere during the last ten years, and is taken up for its use especially by students whose career is in India and the Colonies.’
Vol. XXXV
October 14, 1904, pg 22
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Anthropology in Ancient History
January 20, 1905, pg 263
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Race, Language and Civilization
February 21, 1905, pg 365
Decree giving PR Dept £100 for assistance and general expenses (Hope £100, Geology £50, Mineralogy £50). Carried February 28 (pg 378)
April 28,, 1905, pg 471
Professor will lecture at the Museum on the Origin and Diffusion of Languages
May 9, 1905, pg 520
Notice that due to ill health, Professor of Anthropology unable to give announced lectures, in his place Balfour will give six lectures on ‘The Origin and Early Development of Human Arts and Appliances’.
May 16, 1905, pg 545
Seventeenth Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1904)
8,252 visitors to the Museum in 1904, admission fees amounted to £33 19s 9d. Now open 10am-4pm, free to University Members
Annual Meeting of BMA. Electric light installed in the PRM during long vacation by Local Executive Committee of British Medical Association and formally presented to the University. Lectures and meetings as last year.
Balfour report pg 568-571– see PHOTOCOPY
Tylor report: ‘He has reason to think that his lectures supplemented by informal instruction, have been of service to students when holding appointments in India, the Malay Peninsula, &c. There is also some ground for hoping that the absence of any official evidence of such students having attained to proficiency may be remedied, a memorandum, widely signed, having been submitted to the Hebdomadal Council asking for the establishment of Diplomas in Anthropology similar to those at present awarded to Students of Geography and Economic Science.’
June 14, 1905, pg 665
Decree: ‘That of the first two elected members of the Committee for Anthropology to be appointed respectively by the Board of the Faculty of Arts (Literae Humaniores) and by the Board of the Faculty of Natural Science, the senior in each case shall hold office until the first day of Michaelmas Term, 1908, and the junior until the first day of Michaelmas Term, 1906; and that the first member appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Arts (Modern History) and by the Board of the Faculty of Arts (Oriental Languages) shall hold office until the first day of Michaelmas Term, 1907.’ Carried June 20 (pg 681)
June 20, 1905, pg 682
Decree: ‘That the thanks of the University be returned to certain donors who have placed at the disposal of the Committee for Anthropology a sum of £30, to be expended at the discretion of the Committee for any suitable purposes other than the provision of instruction or the purchase of specimens.’ Carried June 27 (pg 710)
Vol. XXXVI
October 13, 1905, pg 24
Professor will lecture at the museum on the Origin and Diffusion of Languages
November 14, 1905, pg 139
Decree: that Henry Balfour be appointed curator of PRM, to hold office until December 31, 1912, to have same status in regard to UM as other Professors teaching there, to have stipend of £200 a year from University Chest from January 1, 1906. Carried November 21, 1905 (pg 164, repeated pg 184)
Decree: that the University Chest expend sum not exceeding £200 a year from January 1, 1906 on assistance and current expenses in the PRM. Carried November 21, 1905 (pg 164, repeated pg 184)
December 5, 1905, pg 220
J.L. Myres appointed Secretary of Committee for Anthropology; L.R. Farnell and A.A. MacDonell co-opted for two years; Tylor, Thomson and Balfour appointed members of the Committee for the nomination of Examiners in Anthropology. Examination in Anthropology will be each year in Trinity Term until further notice.
January 19, 1906, pg 259
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Prehistoric Man
January 23, 1906, pg 297
Amendment of Jan 19 notice. In addition to Tylor’s lecture, Mr. A.M. Bell, M.A., Balliol College, will lecture (by arrangement with the Professor) on the Neolithic Age, at the Ashmolean Museum
‘For other lectures on Anthropological subjects and for Informal Instruction, see the announcement of the Committee for Anthropology, pg 302, 303.
January 23, 1906, pg 302, Lectures etc. in Anthropology – see PHOTOCOPY
February 13, 1906, pg 348
Following names will be submitted to the House, nominated to serve as examiners for the Diploma in Anthropology: E. B. Tylor (to hold office for three examinations, beginning June 1906), Arthur Thomson (to hold office for two examinations), R. R. Marett (to hold office for one examination). Approved February 20, 1906
Following regulations for the Examination for the Diploma in Anthropology will be submitted to the House:
- 1.every candidate for examination must, before admission to the examination, produce evidence of having been engaged in the study of Anthropology for at least one academic year.
- 2.the examination shall include both written work and practical work, combined with oral examination
- 3.any candidate may, three months’ notice having been given, submit, at the time of examination, any notes or other evidence of work, whether published or otherwise, done in any department of Anthropology, and these shall be considered by the Examiners in their award
- 4.every candidate must pay a fee of £2 10s
- 5.Every candidate will be required to satisfy the Examiners in the following subjects
- The Elements of Physical Anthropology
- The Elements of Cultural Anthropology
Approved February 20, 1906
April 20, 1906, pg 473
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Race, Language and Civilization
A.M. Bell will lecture (for the Professor) at the Ashmolean on the Palaeolithic and Neolithic Age, and will receive students informally for discussion of early traces of Man in Europe, and for field work in the neighbourhood of Oxford.
April 20, 1906, pg 484, Lectures etc. in Anthropology – see PHOTOCOPY
April 24, 1906, pg 518, date of examination for Diploma in Anthropology June 12 and following days
May 15, 1906, pg 591
Eighteenth Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1905)
8,754 visitors to the Museum, £33 2s 9d in admission fees
Delegates received £250 from Magdalen College June 1905 and June 1906, for payment of Scientific Assistants. Of the first payment £100 each to Hope and Pathological Depts, £50 to PRM
Societies and meetings as previous years
Balfour report pg 608-612 – see PHOTOCOPY
Tylor report – adds nothing to lecture announcements
June 19, 1906, pg 754
John L. Myres and Herbert W. Blunt elected members of the Committee for Anthropology, holding office for 3 years; Andrew Lang and Charles Hercules Read have been co-opted members for two years. Arthur John Evans will replace Balfour on the Committee for the nomination of examiners, holding office for 3 years.
Vol. XXXVII
October 12, 1906, pg 22
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Early Stages of Art and Knowledge
Committee for Anthropology Lectures, pg 34, see PHOTOCOPY
December 20, 1906, pg 256
Committee for Anthropology Lectures, see PHOTOCOPY
January 18, 1907, pg 271
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Early Stages of Art and Knowledge
January 22, 1907, pg 317
Vice-Chancellor grants Tylor dispensation from duties of lecturing and giving instruction for a period not exceeding three weeks from the appearance of this notice. As far as necessary, Balfour will take lectures.
January 29, 1907, pg 330
Amendment to notice of 18 Jan, due to ill health Professor unable to take the course on Early Stages of Art and Knowledge which will be given by Henry Balfour instead
February 19, 1907, pg 383
Decree: not more than £350 on erection of a store-room and fuming room on south side of PRM, and on providing water-supply service and fittings and electrical fittings for the same. Carried February 26 (pg 399)
February 26, 1907, pg 402
Proposal at Congregation: amendment to the statute to be proposed, to empower the Committee for Anthropology to grant certificates in proficiency in both Physical Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology
April 26, 1907, pg 511
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Races of Mankind
Committee for Anthropology Lectures, pg 525, see PHOTOCOPY
April 30, 1907, pg 557
Short Annual Report of the Committee for Anthropology (for 1906) will be presented to the house (presented May 7, pg 575)
May 7, 1907, pg 578
Regulations for Certificates in Anthropology will be submitted to the House. Need at least 3 months work in the department which is offered for examination. Otherwise, nothing of great interest here. Approved May 14 (pg 599)
pg 589, announcement of dates of examination for Certificates in Physical and Cultural Anthropology
May 22, 1907, pg 641
Nineteenth Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1906)
7,677 visitors to the Museum, £26 6s 6d in admission fees
Magdalen grant of £250 for Scientific Assistants was distributed as last year, £100 each to Hope and Pathology, £50 to PRM
Meetings and Societies as in previous reports
Balfour report pg 659-663 – see PHOTOCOPY
Tylor report: ‘The Professor reports that during 1906 he has lectured to a somewhat larger average class, though seldom reaching 20. It is to be hoped that the projected Regulations for the degree of D.Sc. may be effective in bringing in students of Anthropology. In the meantime it is encouraging to learn from former students now holding appointments in India and the Colonies, that what they have learnt of Anthropology at home has been of service to them in their intercourse with the native races.’
June 25, 1907, pg 794
Thomas L. Bullock, Professor of Chinese, and Paul Vinogradoff, Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence, have been elected members of the Committee for Anthropology to hold office for 3 years from Michaelmas 1907
Vol. XXXVII
October 11, 1907, pg 23
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Anthropological Evidence in History (especially Classical)
Committee for Anthropology Lectures, pg 38, see PHOTOCOPY
October 29, 1907, pg 118
Robert R. Marett elected secretary to Committee for Anthropology until first day of Michaelmas Term 1909 in place of John L. Myres, resigned.
January 17, 1908, pg 278
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Race, Language and Civilization
Committee for Anthropology Lectures, pg 290, see PHOTOCOPY
January 28, 1908, pg 334
Robert R. Marett nominated to serve as Examiner for Diploma in Anthropology for 3 years. Approved February 4 (pg 356)
February 18, 1908, pg 395
short Annual Report of the Committee for Anthropology will be presented to the House (presented 25 February pg 413)
February 25, 1908, pg 421
Announcement of benefaction to aid the work of the Committee for Anthropology, of £100, from Henry Wilde, Hon. D.C.L., founder of the Wilde Readership in Mental Philosophy
March 10, 1908, pg 455
Alfred C. Haddon has been nominated to serve as Examiner for Diploma in Anthropology for two years. Approved March 17 (pg 486)
April 24, 1908, pg 523
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Early Stages of Art and Knowledge
Committee for Anthropology Lectures, pg 534, see PHOTOCOPY
June 2, 1908, pg 731
Twentieth Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1907)
Magdalen grant allotted as in previous years.
8,034 visitors to the museum, £26 19s 3d in admission fees
erection of store, work and fuming rooms for PR department, in space between PRM workshop and Department of Human Anatomy, constructed of white bricks with blue slated roof, water and electricity laid on, building covers an area of about 900 square feet.
Meetings and Societies as before
Balfour report pg 749-753 – see PHOTOCOPY
Tylor report adds nothing new
June 23, 1908, pg 837
Robert R. Marett and John Cook Wilson (Wykeham Professor of Logic), have been elected to the Committee for Anthropology to hold office for three years from Michaelmas Term 1908
Vol. XXXIX
October 9, 1908, pg 24
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Races and Languages of Mankind
Committee for Anthropology Lectures, pg 36-7 see PHOTOCOPY
October 13, 1908, pg 77
William McDougall nominated as member of Committee for the nomination of Examiners in Anthropology for three years vice Professor Tylor
Charles H. Read re-elected as member of the Committee for two years, and Andrew J. Herbertson for two years to replace Andrew Lang
November 24, 1908, pg 222
Tylor re-appointed Reader for five years from termination of present period of office on Dec 31, 1908
December 19, 1908, pg 282
Committee for Anthropology, Common University Fund Lectures
Mr. R.R. Marett will deliver six lectures at the Examination Schools on Wednesdays at 5.30pm as follows:
Jan 20 ‘Bull-roarers and High Gods’
Jan 27 ‘Totemism and Orientation’
Feb 3 ‘The making of a Medicine-man’
Feb 10 ‘The beginnings of the Blood-Sacrifice’
Feb 17 ‘Ritual and Ritualism’
Feb 24 ‘Primitive Sacraments’
January 15, 1909, pg 295
Professor will lecture at the Museum on the Development of Arts and Sciences
Wilde Lecturer in Natural and Comparative Religion, L.R. Farnell, M.A., D. Litt., will give an inaugural lecture on general aspects of the subject, in especial reference to Mediterranean religions, on Saturday, March 6 in the Ashmolean Museum
Committee for Anthropology, Lectures, pg 305, see PHOTOCOPY
January 26, 1909, pg 347
Balfour nominated as Examiner for Diploma in Anthropology for three years. Approved 2 February (pg 368)
pg 358 Tylor has been elected member of Committee for nomination of Examiners in Anth to replace Balfour
February 2, 1909, pg 372
Short Annual Report will be presented by Committee for Anthropology – see PHOTOCOPY
February 9, 1909, pg 396
Decree: that the Curators of the University Chest be authorised to pay the Curator of PRM, in addition to £200 a year granted Nov 28, 1905, further sum of £100 a year for four years from January 1, 1909 for general expenses of the museum. Carried February 16, 1909 (pg 410)
March 9, 1909, pg 477
Arthur Thomson nominated to serve as examiner for Diploma in Anthropology for 1909 examination. Approved March 24 (pg 513)
April 23, 1909, pg 540
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Anthropological Evidence in History
Wilde Lecturer will lecture at the Ashmolean on (1) Greek worship of the dead and (2) Influence of Anthropomorphism in Greek Religion
Committee for Anthropology Lectures, pg 554, see PHOTOCOPY
May 25, 1909, pg 687
Twenty-First Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1908)
Balfour appointed Secretary to the Delegates, replacing Miers who moved to London University, for a term of five years.
A. G. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S., gave an address on ‘The Early History of the Museum’, on October 8th as part of celebrations of 50th anniversary of work beginning on the Museum
Magdalen grant allotted as before, £50 to PRM for Scientific Assistants
Societies and meetings as before, evening reception for the Congress of the History of Religions held at PRM on September 6, 1908
Balfour report, pg 703-707 – see PHOTOCOPY
Tylor report adds nothing new
June 22, 1909, pg 839
Edgar H.J. Schuster and Herbert W. Blunt elected members of the committee for Anthropology to hold office for three years from Michaelmas Term 1909
Vol XL
October 8, 1909
Professor will lecture at the Museum on Anthropology in History (especially Classical)
Committee for Anthropology Lectures, pg 38, see PHOTOCOPY
January 14, 1910
Committee for Anthropology Lectures, pg 289, see PHOTOCOPY
February 8, 1910, pg 373
Short Annual Report of committee for Anthropology will be presented (presented February 15, 1910 pg 391)
March 1, 1910, pg 458
‘The Delegates [of CUF] have ordered that £300 a year for the three years from January 1, 1910, till December 31, 1912, be paid from the Common University Fund to increase the stipend of the present Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum, on condition that he teach on matters connected with the Pitt-Rivers Museum: the arrangement to terminate if and when the University makes other arrangements bearing upon the office, duties, and remuneration of the Curator. February 24, 1910’
April 22, 1910, pg 544
Committee for Anthropology Lectures see PHOTOCOPY
May 31, 1910, pg 723
Twenty-second Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1909)
Magdalen grant allotted as in previous years.
7,337 visitors, £25 9s taken in admission fees
societies and meetings as previously reported
Balfour report, pg 742-745 – see PHOTOCOPY
Tylor Report ‘Dr. Tylor reports that he lectured as usual during the three terms of the Academical year, but at the end of that time he found with regret that the time had come for him to resign his Professorship.’
June 8, 1910, pg 778
Announcement that the Delegates of the CUF will shortly appoint a Reader in Social Anthropology, for three years on stipend of £300, shall lecture in each term for not less than seven weeks nor 21 weeks in the whole year, twice at least in each week. Shall receive students for informal instruction at least twice a week. Candidates requested to send in names and 6 copies of any papers they may wish to submit
June 13, 1910, pg 787
Lewis Richard Farnell elected to Committee for nomination of Examiners for Diploma and Certificates in Anth
Andrew John Herbertson and Charles Hercules Read have been co-opted members of the Committee for Anthropology for a two year term
June 14, 1910, pg 790
Arthur Thomson nominated and appointed examiner for Diploma and Certificates in Anthropology
June 21, 1910, pg 843
Paul Vinogradoff and David G. Hogarth elected members of Committee for Anthropology for three years from Michaelmas 1910
July 6, 1910, pg 874
R. R. Marett has been appointed Reader in Social Anthropology to hold office for three years from October 1, 1910
Transcribed by Frances Larson for the Relational Museum project
