Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

9

Lane Fox chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute

Peter Rivière

January

23

Lane Fox chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute; reads paper about measurements of soldiers under his command

JAI 6 (1877): 443-457; Chapman, 1981 Chapter 6

January

30

Lane Fox chairs AGM of Anthropological Institute, gives presidential address. Elected vice-president of Anthropological Institute

Peter Rivière

February

13

Item acquired from Anthropological Institute

PRM accession book

February

27

Lane Fox present meeting Anthropological Institute, contributes to discussion

JAI 7 (1878): 21-43

March

13

Lane Fox acquires Cypriot material ?auction. This could be Cesnola piece actually purchased 23.3.77

PRM accession book

March

21-23

Lane Fox purchases Cesnola material, Sotheby's auction

Sotheby catalogue, Bodleain Library

March

23

Lane Fox acquires other objects ?auction [possibly at same auctions as Cesnola material?]

PRM accession book

March

27

Lane Fox chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute, contributes to discussion

JAI, 7 (1878): 82; 96-99

March

27

Lane Fox involved in review of volunteers at Dunstable on Easter Monday

The Times 27 March 1877

April

3

Lane Fox attends review of Volunteers at Dunstable, Kent

Manchester Guardian 3 April 1877

April

10

Lane Fox present at meeting of Anthropological Institute, contributes to discussions

JAI 7 (1878): 118-123; 232-274

April

12, 14 or 15

Lane Fox's 50th birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about date

April

24

Lane Fox gives paper with WL Distant at Anthropological Institute on Photos from the Andamans and Malaccas

Morning Post 23 April 1877 p. 7

May

8

Lane Fox present at  meeting of Anthropological Institute, contributes to discussions. Lane Fox chairs and discusses Beddoe's report on Queensland Aborigines

JAI 7 (1878): 138-140; 142-145; 145-8

May

22

Lane Fox present at meeting of Anthropological Institute, contributes to discussions. Reads paper on SPAB and another on ancient monuments in Ohio

JAI 7 (1878): 165-185; 186; 186-187

May

No days

Lane Fox excavating in Guildford Whitmoor Common

PRM accession book; Bowden, 1991: 83

May

No days

Items acquired from Brittany, France

PRM accession book

June

1

Lane Fox attends meeting of Archaeological Institute and talks to W.M. Flinders Petrie

Alice Stevenson pers comm.

June

12

Lane Fox chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute; contributes to discussions

JAI 7 (1878): 202-205

June

14

Lane Fox attends meeting at Society of Antiquaries

Athenaeum 2591 (1877 June 23)

June

22

Lane Fox attends State Ball at Buckingham Palace

The Times 23 June 1877

June

28

Lane Fox attends concert at French Embassy

Morning Post 29 June 1877 p. 5

June

29

Lane Fox goes to see Hampton Court canoe found in Thames, reads paper to Anthropological Institute meeting in June presumably on same day or day after

Lane Fox A.H. 1878 ‘On the discovery of a dug-out canoe in the Thames at Hampton Court.’ JAI 7 [1878] 102-3

July

6

Items acquired from Bryce Wright [some not marked as such so might be from another source]

PRM accession book

July

10

Delivery of items from Lane Fox to Bethnal Green

Day or Van book known as Green book

July

17-23

Lane Fox digging with George Rolleston in Sigwell, Somerset

Thompson, 1977: 57, 124; Bowden, 1991: 84

July

23

Lane Fox examining 'camp' at Charwell

Account given with letter dated 26 May 1878 to George Rolleston Ashmolean Museum

August

10

Hampton Court canoe dated

PRM accession book

August

13

Delivery of items from Lane Fox to Bethnal Green Museum

Day or Van book known as Green book

August

18, 21

Lane Fox at British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at Plymouth, talking about excavations at Plymouth. Does not appear to have stayed for all of meeting

The Times 18 August 1877; Manchester Guardian 18 and 21 August 1877

September

2

Lane Fox excavating Mount Caburn, Newhaven, Ranscombe, Sussex. With Rolleston, John Evans and Francis Galton at Mount Caburn

Thompson, 1977: 125, dates PRM accession book, The Times 18 September 1877

September

25

Objects obtained, possibly from auction/ Bryce Wright

PRM accession book

September

27

Delivery of items from Lane Fox to Bethnal Green Museum

Day or Van book known as Green book

September

No days

Items obtained in Sussex

PRM accession book

September - October

No days

Lane Fox excavating Mount Caburn and Ranscombe

Thompson, 1977: 55, 125

October

1

Promoted Major-General

Thompson, 1977: 53, 125; Gray, 1905: x; London Gazette (24508: 5461); Chapman, 1981 Chapter 6

October

11

Items obtained possibly at auction?

PRM accession book

October

12

Delivery of items from Lane Fox to Bethnal Green

Day or Van book known as Green book

October

No days

Item purchased in Paris, might be mistake for October 1878 [see on]

PRM accession book

November

13

Lane Fox attends meeting of Anthropological Institute, exhibits flints from Egypt before paper read by Burton

JAI 7 (1878): 323-324

November

27

Lane Fox attends meeting of Anthropological Institute, exhibits items from Istria and Scinde; contributes to discussions, reads paper on the Anthropometric committee

Peter Rivière, JAI 7 (1878): 364-372; 372-378; JAI 7 (1878): 391-393

December

7

Lane Fox attends meeting at Archaeological Institute

Athenaeum 2616 (15 Dec 1877)

December

11

Paper read about Cissbury excavations by J Park Harrison and JG Jeffreys, Lane Fox apparently not present but comments

JAI 7 (1878): 412-431

December

17

Items obtained from Solomons, ?auction

PRM accession book

December

24

References made to Lane Fox's collection at Bethnal Green

The Times 24 December 1877

December

28

Delivery of items from Lane Fox to Bethnal Green Museum

Day or Van book known as Green book

No month

No day

Lane Fox gives up command in Guildford; retires on General's half-pay

Thompson, 1977: 125; Chapman, 1981: Chapter 6

No month

No day

2nd edition of catalogue of Lane Fox's collection at Bethnal Green / South Kensington Museum published

Gray, 1901: xi

No month

No days

Lane Fox inspects Kintbury site, report to Anthropological Institute

JAI, 7 (1878): 104-105

No month

No days

E.H. Man's report on Andaman Islands given by Lane Fox

JAI 7 (1878): 105-109