Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1870.
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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| May | 23 | Publication of Nature's criticism of new curriculum for the Natural Science degree at Oxford | See here | |
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| August | 16 | Pitt-Rivers attends BAAS meeting at Brighton, he is vice-president of the Anthropological section | Thompson, 1977: 51, 124, Chapman, 1981: 400, PRM accession book, The Times 17 August 1872. Petch, 2007: 21 | At meeting support for establishing joint committee with Royal Geographical Society to set up Notes and Queries |
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| November | 5,15 | Tylor (and Pitt-Rivers?) become interested in spiritualism | Rethinking Pitt-Rivers website; Stocking 1971: 91; PRM ms collection Tylor papers | |
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| Unspecified | Pitt-Rivers member of council of Anthropological Institute | JAI 1, (1872): 400 | ||
| Unspecified | Moseley invited to be one of the naturalists on the Challenger for 4 years | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Rolleston elected fellow of Merton College, Oxford | DNB entry | ||
| Unspecified | Tylor goes abroad, he is known to have visited Belgium | Megan Price pers comm. | ||
| Unspecified | Edward Evans starts work as assistant to George Rowell at the Ashmolean Museum and the OUMNH | Ovenell papers, Ashmolean Museum RFO/A/3/11 printed pamphlet, letter from JH Parker to Rowell dated 6 May 1879 | Parker says '... Evans, who has been your assistant for the last seven years' so he must have started in or around 1872 if he is correct |
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