A year in the life: 1898

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Event

Source of information

Notes

January

 

 

 

 

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March

 

 

 

 

April

12, 14 or 15

Pitt-Rivers' 71st birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate

 

April

24

Tylors and Pitt-Rivers at University lecture

Univ. of California Tylor papers

 

May

5

Pitt-Rivers contributes to cost of portrait of Herbert Spencer

The Times 5 May 1898

 

May

23

Pitt-Rivers states Oxford was never right place for founding collection

L2096 S&SWM Pitt-Rivers Papers

 

circa June

No dates

Sometime during the early summer it seems clear that Pitt-Rivers was on holiday with his wife, possibly abroad

References to him being away in several letters, mention of palazzo in L2137 S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers

No confirmation of dates or venue yet obtained

July

 

 

 

 

August

 

 

 

 

September

 

 

 

 

October

 

 

 

 

November

 

 

 

 

December

 

 

 

 

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Pitt-Rivers publishes fourth Cranborne Chase volume

Thompson, 1977: 127

 

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Construction of Upper Indian house, Larmer Gardens

Thompson, 1977: 80, 127

House obtained at 1890 Earls Court Indian Exhibition [Dudley Buxton, 1929: 14]

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Pitt-Rivers elected vice-president of Anthropological Institute for year

Peter Rivière

 

 

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