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A year in the life: 1888
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Pitt-Rivers' 61st birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about date |
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April |
23 |
Pitt-Rivers elected member of council of Society of Antiquaries |
Athenaeum 3157 (April 28 1888) p. 537 |
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May |
3 |
Pitt-Rivers elected Ruling Councillor of meeting of Handley Habitation |
Morning Post 9 May 1888 p. 2 |
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May |
22 and on |
Pitt-Rivers excavating Bokerley Dyke |
Thompson, 1977: 101, 126 |
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June |
2 |
Pitt-Rivers attends reception at Foreign Office |
Manchester Guardian 3 June 1888 |
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June |
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Pitt-Rivers excavating Bokerley Dyke |
Thompson, 1977: 126 |
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June |
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Pitt-Rivers receives letter from Rev. A.C. Smith suggesting excavating at Wansdyke |
Bowden, 1991: 119 |
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July |
12 |
Pitt-Rivers attends first annual dinner of the Liberty and Property Defence League at the Freemasons' Tavern |
The Times 16 July 1888; Morning Post 13 July 1888 p. 2 |
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August |
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September |
6-7 |
Pitt-Rivers president of British Association for the Advancement of Science [BAAS] Anthropological Section at Bath and gives address |
BAAS report; JAI 18 (1889): 100; The Times 22 May, 15 August, 14 September 1888 |
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September |
6-7 |
Pitt-Rivers meets with Tylors in Bath |
Univ. of California Tylor papers |
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September |
13-15 |
Tylors visit Pitt-Rivers at Rushmore |
Univ. of California Tylor papers |
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September / October |
25 September - 9 October |
Pitt-Rivers tours south west England and southern Wales as Inspector of Ancient Monuments |
National Archives workbook 39/10; PRM PR papers Box 3/1/1 account by PR of his travels as Inspector marked B5617/ 88 |
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October |
4 |
Tylor writes to Pitt-Rivers about preparing catalogue guide of PR founding collection |
Tylor to Pitt Rivers, October 4 1888, L.541 S&SWM, P-R papers |
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October |
23 |
Pitt-Rivers and Balfour dine with Tylors in Oxford. Pitt-Rivers visits Pitt Rivers Museum |
Univ. of California Tylor papers; Chapman 1981: Chapter 8 |
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November |
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Pitt-Rivers signs protest against certain developments in Education |
Frederic Harrison, 'The Sacrifice of Education to Examination' Nineteenth Century, a monthly review 24: 141 |
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November |
15 |
Pitt-Rivers attends meeting at Burlington House to discuss cooperation between local archaeological societies |
QUARTERLY SUMMARY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES AND WORK, &C., Archaeological Review, 2:4 (1888:Dec.) p.265 |
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December |
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Pitt-Rivers publishes second Cranborne Chase volume |
Thompson, 1977: 126 |
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Pitt-Rivers publishes Excavations in Barrows near Rushmore. Excavations in the Romano-British village Rotherly. Excavations in Cranborne Chase vol II Rushmore Privately printed, Letter on Additions to the Schedule of Ancient Monuments PSAL 12 (1888) 90-1; Address as the President of the Anthropological Section of the British Association, Bath Sept 6 1888' RBAAS (1888) 825-35; 'On an ancient British settlement excavated near Rushmore, Salisbury' JAI 17 (1888) 190-9 |
See relevant journals |
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Pitt-Rivers' Inspector's visit South Wales |
Thompson, 1977:66 et seq |
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First annual report for Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford produced, Balfour working on Upper Gallery displays of weapons, which open 1888 in the afternoons |
PRM annual report 1888, Cousins, 1993: 10 |
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Pitt-Rivers stands unsuccessfully for County Council as an independent |
Thompson, 1977: 85 Bowden, 1991: 40 |
Thompson says 1888-9, so might also be next year |
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Grey brothers [Claude and Harold St George) start work as Pitt-Rivers' assistants on Cranborne Chase excavations |
Bowden, 1991: 106 |
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Pitt-Rivers gives address to Primrose League, Handley |
Thompson, 1977: 86 |
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First visitor figures produced for Farnham Museum, Dorset |
Pitt-Rivers' guide to the Museum |
Possibly the first year it was fully open? |
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