Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1863.
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 | ||||
March | No day | E.B. Tylor joins Anthropological Society of London | Chapman, 1981: 232 | |
April | 11 | Henry Balfour born | DNB entry | |
May | ||||
June | No day | The Tylors spend June to September in Scotland | Megan Price pers comm. | |
July | ||||
August | ||||
September | ||||
October | No day | Pitt-Rivers nominated for membership of Society of Antiquaries | Chapman, 1981: 130; Thompson, 1977: 32 | |
November | ||||
December | ||||
Unspecified | First complaints made about insufficiency of space at OUMNH | Relational Museum website; Fox, 1997: 673 |
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