Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1853.
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 |
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| February | 17 | University appointed a Delegacy to prepare description of museum buildings required for new museum at Oxford and to submit the description to an architect in order that a report could be submitted to Convocation. Members of the Delegacy included Acland, Walker, Donkin, Strickland, Greswell and various Heads of Houses. Secretary was M.H. Story-Maskelyne | Vernon, 1909: 52 | |
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| June? | First examinations held in Final Honours School for Natural Sciences | Vernon, 1909: 48 | ||
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| December | No day | 4 acres of land purchased from Merton College for new Museum of Natural History [hereafter known as OUMNH] besides Parks Road, Oxford for £4000. | Relational Museum website and Learn More on OUMNH website [Fox, 1997: 650]; Vernon 1909: 53 | |
| Unspecified | John Phillips appointed as Deputy Reader in Geology | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Acland publishes A Synopsis of the Physiological Series in the Ch. Ch. Museum | Davies and Hall 1975 Zoological Collections | ||
| Unspecified | Tylor visits Switzerland, Italy and Croatia | Relational Museum timeline; Megan Price pers comm | ||
| Unspecified | University appoints a Committee to plan the University Museum, this committee including Acland and other heads of departments | Davies and Hull 1975 Zoological Collections |
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