Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1874.
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 | 24 | Delivery of items from Pitt-Rivers to BGM showing loan has begun (NB the main bulk of objects had already been delivered) | Day or Van book known as Green book | |
| January | 27 | Pitt-Rivers elected vice-president of Anthropological Institute for 1874 | ||
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| April | 24 | Death of John Phillips, first Keeper at OUMNH | DNB entry | |
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| August | before 26 | Lane Fox present at BAAS meeting in Belfast, he presides over anthropological section | The Times 26 August 1874 | |
| September | 4 | GF Duncombe writes to Lane Fox to tell him 5 small darts have been stolen from the displays at Bethnal Green Museum | S&SWM Pitt-Rivers papers P118 | |
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| December | 22 | Lane Fox delivers 'Early Modes of Navigation' paper to Anthropological Institute | JAI 4 (1875): 399-437; Thompson, 1977: 38 | |
| Unspecified | First edition of Notes and Queries published, Pitt-Rivers financed at least part of the costs | Petch, 2007: 22 | ||
| Unspecified | First edition of the Catalogue of Pitt-Rivers collection at BGM published | |||
| Unspecified | Moseley publishes 'On the Anatomy and Histology of the Land Planarians of Ceylon', read before Royal Society | DNB entry |
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