Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

February

March

April

12, 14 or 15

Pitt-Rivers' 61st birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about date

April

23

Pitt-Rivers elected member of council of Society of Antiquaries

Athenaeum 3157 (April 28 1888) p. 537

May

3

Pitt-Rivers elected Ruling Councillor of meeting of Handley Habitation

Morning Post 9 May 1888 p. 2

May

22 and on

Pitt-Rivers excavating Bokerley Dyke

Thompson, 1977: 101, 126

June

2

Pitt-Rivers attends reception at Foreign Office

Manchester Guardian 3 June 1888

June

No days

Pitt-Rivers excavating Bokerley Dyke

Thompson, 1977: 126

June

No days

Pitt-Rivers receives letter from Rev. A.C. Smith suggesting excavating at Wansdyke

Bowden, 1991: 119

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

August

September

6-7

Pitt-Rivers president of British Association for the Advancement of Science [BAAS] Section at Bath and gives address

BAAS report; JAI 18 (1889): 100; The Times 22 May, 15 August, 14 September 1888

September

6-7

Pitt-Rivers meets with Tylors in Bath

Univ. of California Tylor papers

September

13-15

Tylors visit Pitt-Rivers at Rushmore

Univ. of California Tylor papers

September

25 and on

Pitt-Rivers tours south west England as Inspector of Ancient Monuments

Route given National Archives workbook 39/10 page 7, date given page 8 [goes straight on to tour in October in Wales]

October

3-9

Pitt-Rivers in Carmarthen, Wales as Inspector of Ancient Monuments, later he travels home via Bath and Devizes [on 9.10.1888]

National Archives Workbook 39/4 pages 24, 31 confirms dates. Bath visit confirmed 39/4 page 46, Devizes pages 48, 53

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

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

November

Unknown

Pitt-Rivers signs protest against certain developments in Education

Frederic Harrison, 'The Sacrifice of Education to Examination' Nineteenth Century, a monthly review 24: 141

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

December

No month

No day

Pitt-Rivers publishes second Cranborne Chase volume

Thompson, 1977: 126

No month

No day

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

No month

No days

Pitt-Rivers' Inspector's visit South Wales

Thompson, 1977:66 et seq

No month

No days

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

No month

No days

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

No month

No days

Grey brothers [Claude and Harold St George) start work as Pitt-Rivers' assistants on Cranborne Chase excavations

Bowden, 1991: 106

No month

No days

Pitt-Rivers gives address to Primrose League, Handley

Thompson, 1977: 86

No month

No days

First visitor figures produced for Farnham Museum, Dorset

Pitt-Rivers' guide to the Museum

Possibly the first year it was fully open?