Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1895.
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 | No day | Tylor lectures on the Early stages of knowledge, science, magic, mythology, history in Hilary Term | Alison Brown pers comm. | |
| February | 7 | Report of the Committee of the Board of the Faculty of Natural Science concludes its discussions and agrees a report for Hebdomadal Council | see March 19 | |
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| March | 10 | William Beale dies, attendant in PRM since 1887 | University Gazette 9 June 1896 p 569 | |
| March | 19 | Report of the Committee of the Board of the Faculty of Natural Science for the University's Hebdomadal Council meeting on the question of whether Anthropology might be admitted as a principal subject in the Honour School of Natural Science | University Archives, Duke Humphrey's Library, Bodleian Library | |
| April | 16 | Vice-Chancellor writes to Balfour expressing regret at hearing of his illness and formally confirms 2 terms' leave of absence | PRM ms collections PRM papers Box 1 Foundation of PRM | |
| April | No day | Tylor lectures on the Anthropology of social and political institutions in Trinity Term | Alison Brown pers comm. | |
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| June | No day | Statute approved to establish Professorship of Anthropology | ||
| June | 17 | Tylor writes to Acland to complain that the move to make Anthropology a degree course was defeated because some classicists wanted to make it a special subject within Greats | Howarth, 2000a: 482, quoting from Tylor to Acland 17 June 1875 [sic] Acland MSS d 95 Bodleian | |
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| August | 5 | Lorimer Fison writes to Tylor to congratulate him on his new post (presumably as Professor) | Fison 48 Tylor papers PRM ms collections | |
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| October | No day | Tylor lectures on The relation of savage life to the higher forms of civilization in Michaelmas Term | Alison Brown pers comm. | |
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| December | ||||
| Unspecified | Tylor appointed Professor of Social Anthropology | Anthropology at Oxford p. 17 | ||
| Unspecified | Tylor leads petition to establish a final honour school in Anthropology (rejected by Convocation) | Relational Museum timelines |
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| Unspecified | Balfour ill in 1894-1895 [see April above] and submits Annual Report covering two years (1894 and 1895) in 1895 | Relational Museum timelines / Annual Report 1894-5 | ||
| Unspecified | Henry John Walters appointed to museum staff | Relational Museum timelines | First of a dynasty of 3 generations to serve the museum | |
| Unspecified | Old printed labels replaced by painted ones | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the years 1894-1895: Lighting, Smoking / narcotics, Currency, Animal form in art, Human figures in art, String / netting | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1894-5 | ||
| Unspecified | 3 large cases transferred from Department of Comparative Anatomy to PRM, other new cases are also added | Annual Report 1894-5 | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour continues to lecture: ‘Progress in the Arts of Mankind, particularly as illustrated by the Pitt-Rivers Collection’ during Hilary and Easter and Trinity Terms, 1894, and during Michaelmas Term of the same year gave a series of six lectures upon ‘Primitive Musical Instruments considered especially in their relation to the early development of the higher forms.’ besides a few other lectures in and out of Oxford' | Annual Report 1894-5 | ||
| Unspecified | Glazing on roof of south side of museum renewed though rain still penetrates the roof on the north side of the museum | Annual Report 1894-5 | ||
| Unspecified | The Tylors travel to Holland, Denmark and Switzerland | Megan Price, pers comm. |
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