Events in the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum that took place in 1850.
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| August | No day | Rolleston awarded first class degree in classics at Oxford | DNB entry | |
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| Unspecified | University of Oxford's Honour School of Natural Sciences founded | Wikipedia; Davies and Hull 1975 Zoological Collections; Vernon 1909: 48 | ||
| Unspecified | Rolleston elected to Sheppard fellowship in law and physic | DNB entry | Held until 1862 |
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