Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1873.
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 | 7 | Rolleston writes to HG Liddell (vice-chancellor) underlining importance of museum collections for ethnology or anthropology | OUMNH, John Phillips Box 102/10; Dan Hicks | |
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| September | No day | Pitt-Rivers attends meeting of the BAAS at Bradford and reports on progress of Notes and Queries committee. Tylor one of contributors to process | Petch, 2007: 22; Relational Museum timeline | |
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| Unspecified | Pitt-Rivers concludes arrangements to loan and display collection at Bethnal Green Museum [BGM] (part of South Kensington Museum) [SKM] | Chapman, 1981: 373 | Chapman says it happened during 'winter' | |
| Unspecified | Tylor lectures at Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society | Relational Museum timeline | ||
| Unspecified | Tylor and his wife on holiday in the Lake District | Megan Price pers comm. |
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