Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1869.
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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| June | 18 | Pitt-Rivers gives third lecture on 'Primitive Warfare' to United Services Institute | Thompson, 1977: 124; Chapman, 1981: 287 | |
| July | 3 | John Linton Myres is born | DNB entry | |
| August | 24 | BAAS meeting at Exeter attended by Pitt-Rivers | Anthropological Review, 7, 27 1869: 414-32; The Times 25 August 1869; Chapman, 1981: Chapter VI | |
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| Unspecified | Pitt-Rivers co-editor of Ethnographical Society of London journal with Lubbock, Huxley and others | JESL, 1, 1 (1869). | ||
| Unspecified | Moseley elected to Radcliffe travelling fellowship in 1869 and travels to Vienna with his close friend Edwin Ray Lankester. He studied at Rokitanski's lab. | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Tylor travels to Switzerland | Megan Price pers comm. | ||
| Unspecified | Edward Evans begins work at the Ashmolean Museum | Macgregor 2000: 256 | ||
| Unspecified | John Henry Parker is appointed Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, instead of John Phillips who remains Keeper of the OUMNH. The separate Ashmolean visitors are reinstated | Ovenell, 1986: 229 | May have happened around March 1870 |
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