Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1935.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
| Month | Day | Event | Source of Information | Notes |
| [Early] | Blackwood reappointed Demonstrator in Faculty of Biological Sciences for one year | Frances Larson pers comm. | ||
| January | No day | Balfour has operation on his foot / feet | RGS correspondence Balfour to Hicks 9 December 1934 and Edith Balfour to Hicks 5 January 1935; Frances Larson pers comm | |
| February | 7 | Arthur Thomson dies | DNB entry | |
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| April | No day | The General Board of the Faculties recommends the creation of a statutory Readership in Social Anthropology and asks Council and the Chest for their approval. | Peter Rivière DC1/1/2: 14 June 1935; OUG 1935-6: 382, 609, 714 | The filling of the readership was suspended early in 1936, then postponed, and finally, when the statute approving the establishment of the chair was approved in June 1936, the readership was abolished |
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| June | 9 | Ernest Seymour Thomas dies in post, with him gone cataloguing work effectively ceases in the museum | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1935-36 | |
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| October | No day | Five years’ funding from the Rockefeller Foundation for a Research Lecturership is provided with effect from Michaelmas Term 1935. E.E. Evans-Pritchard is first recipient |
Peter Rivière | |
| October | No day | Penniman takes on Balfour's teaching commitments in his absence in Michaelmas Term | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1935-36 | |
| October to ? | No days | Balfour very ill, spends time in nursing home | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1935-36 | |
| November | 19 | Congregation, Decree passed awarding Balfour personal title of Professor as long as he holds post as Curator | University Gazette vol 66 20 November 1935 p. 134 PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM | |
| November | 5 /19 | Congregation agrees change to University statutes assigning the Department of Ethnology (Technology) to the Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum [change to Statt. Tit. IV Sect. 1 §3. cl. 4 (Statuta ed 135 p. 58, after 1.36] Decree passed in Convocation 19.11.1935 | University Gazette, see above; PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of Museum | |
| November | No day | Le Gros Clark again complains that Blackwood's position in his Dept is anomalous | Frances Larson pers comm | |
| November | No day | Balfour has operation on his foot / feet | Frances Larson pers comm; RGS correspondence Balfour to Hicks 1 November 1935 | |
| December | No day | Margoliouth writes to Blackwood to confirm that Balfour is prepared to have Blackwood appointed to the Museum | Frances Larson pers comm | |
| Unspecified | Beatrice Blackwood publishes Both Sides of the Buka Passage with Clarendon Press, the book is well received |
DNB entry; Frances Larson pers comm | ||
| Unspecified [but early in the year] | Beatrice Blackwood given one more year as University Demonstrator in Dept of Human Anatomy, OUMNH | Fran Larson pers comm. | ||
| Unspecified | Blackwood appointed Demonstrator at Department of Ethnology (now under control of PRM Curator) | DNB entry | Frances Larson's notes say this happened early 1936 | |
| Unspecified | New cases added in Court | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1935-36 | ||
| Unspecified | New range of sheds built alongside Museum extension and office space was reallocated so that additional storage space could be provided | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1935-36 |
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