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Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1941.

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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Month Day Event Source of Information Notes
January
February
March No day  R.J.C. Atkinson of Magdalen College starts work on conserving bronzes  Annual Report 1940-41
April
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December
Unspecified Green shed is reorganized to take M.D.W. Jeffreys collection donated by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1941-42
Unspecified Museum House partly cleared, and lantern slides, negatives, films and photographs are stored in basement Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report
Unspecified Meinhard almost completes catalogue of Balfour collection and catalogues new accessions Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1941-42
Unspecified Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, pottery, clothing, bone horn ivory implements, Malayan brasses, Maori cloaks Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1941-42
Unspecified 20,000 catalogue cards of objects in collection prepared in 1940-41 by Mrs Meinhard, Mr Gibbs, Mrs Maspero and Mrs Clibborn Annual Report 1940-41
Unspecified Cataloguing of Balfour Library continues by Mr and Miss Ford of Radcliffe Library Annual Report 1940-41

 

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