Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1908.
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 | No day | Examination in Anthropology is first held. The papers are in Physical Anthropology; Ethnology; Archaeology and Technology; and Sociology | Peter Rivière | |
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| Unspecified | Beatrice Blackwood wins scholarship to Somerville College, she reads the Honour School of English | DNB entry; Fran Larson pers comm. PRM ms collections Blackwood papers box 17 | ||
| Unspecified | The University's Galleries and Ashmolean Museum in Beaumont Street combined to form Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology | Relational Museum timelines | ||
| Unspecified | Barbara Freire-Marreco begins volunteer work at the Museum, preparing card catalogue of amulets | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1908 | ||
| Unspecified | First plans of the Museum's displays prepared by Bayzand for public display in the museum | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1908 | ||
| Unspecified | Displays worked on during the year: Musical instruments, stone implements, animal form in art, feather ornaments, spears, harpoon spears, religious emblems | Relational Museum timelines/ Annual Report 1908 | ||
| Unspecified | The 'Duplicates room' 'on the stairs' is to be converted to a public exhibition space | Annual Report 1908 | ||
| Unspecified | Balfour gives series of 'demonstration-lectures' in each University term for the Diploma students, 'the subjects being Prehistoric Archaeology and Comparative Technology; and a special course on the Comparative Technology with special reference to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudân was given to the Probationers for the Sudân Civil Service' | Annual Report 1908 | ||
| Unspecified | David Hogarth, archaeologist, replaces Arthur Evans as Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum | Fran Larson pers comm; Gill 2004 |
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