Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1867.
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 |
| January | 26 | George Rolleston writes to Vice-Chancellor advocating the relocation of the archaeological and anthropological collections to a new gallery to be built adjoining the OUMNH | Transcription here; AA AmS 45; Macgregor, 1997: 603 | |
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| March | No day | Pitt-Rivers elected to council of Society of Antiquaries | Chapman, 1981: 252 | |
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| June | 28 | Pitt-Rivers reads first paper on 'Primitive Warfare' to United Services Institute | Thompson, 1977: 123, Chapman, 1981: 267 | |
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| Unspecified | Tylor visits Swiss Lake Villages whilst on holiday in Switzerland and Italy | Relational Museum timeline / Megan Price pers comm. | ||
| Unspecified | Last significant purchase by the Ashmolean Museum of ethnographic objects [40 objects from Fiji] | Macgregor et al, 2000: 253 | ||
| Unspecified 1867-1868 | The Ashmolean lends 'a large number of articles' to the Art Exhibition at Leeds according to George Rowell. This prompted him to think that a catalogue should be prepared of the objects in the Museum. | Ovenell papers Ashmolean Museum RFO/A/3/11 printed pamphlet conclusion |
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