Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1852.
Readers are reminded that this table is a work in progress and may be amended or added to at any time.
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| Unspecified | Second year in which Pitt-Rivers is said to have begun collecting. However, this is the first year in which we know he obtained an object | Pitt-Rivers, 1906: 3; PRM accession book, Pitt Rivers, 1891: 118-119 | See also 1851 | |
| Unspecified | Tylor visits France, Spain, Italy, Gibraltar, Morocco | Relational Museum timeline; Megan Price pers comm | ||
| Unspecified | 'University Commission recommended that the University should proceed with the plan to build a great museum for the sciences' | Davies and Hull 1975 Zoological Collections |
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