A year in the life: 1870

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Month

Day

Event

Source of information

Notes

January

No days

?Lane Fox excavating Maiden Bower Bedfordshire

OW website

 

January

11

Lane Fox attends meeting of Ethnological Society and shows to Australian skull drinking vessels, reads paper on New Zealand mere or pattoo-pattoo

JESL 2, 1 (1870): 79 [footnote]; Chapman, 1981: 332

 

January

18

Lane Fox attends meeting of Anthropological Society.

JAS, 8 (1870 - 1871):  lxxiv-lxxvii

 

January

25

Lane Fox attends meeting of Ethnological Society and presents paper about two mullers

JESL, 2, 3 (1870): 121, Chapman, 1981: 333

 

February

5

Items acquired from Suffolk

PRM accession book

 

February

No days

Lane Fox attends meeting of Archaeological Society and shows number of his firearms

Chapman, 1981: 333

 

March

8

Lane Fox reads paper on archaeological work near Bangor, North Wales to Ethnological Society.

JESL, 2, 3 (1870): 306-324; Chapman, 1981: 333

 

March

22

Ethnological Society meeting, Lane Fox present and contributes to discussion

JESL, 2, 3 (1870): 325-340, 340-2

 

March

No days

Objects with this date from Acton gravels

PRM accession book

 

April

12

Ethnological Society meeting, Lane Fox present

JESL, 2, 3 (1870): 342-351

 

April

12, 14 or 15

Lane Fox's 43rd birthday

See 1827 for uncertainty about birthdate

 

May

18

Annual meeting of Ethnological Society Lane Fox makes report as Hon. Sec. He is re-elected Hon. Sec.

Chapman, 1981: 334

 

May

No days

Objects acquired from Northern France

PRM accession book

It may be of no relevance, but AW Franks and John Evans were in west France and Paris in May 1870 on an archaeological tour [see Caygill 1997: 85]

May

No days

Objects acquired from Mrs Cowie

PRM accession book

 

May - June

No days

Lane Fox visits Greenwell excavations at Grimes Graves with other members of Ethnological Society

Chapman, 1981: 336

 

June

1

Lane Fox attends Ethnological Society meeting, contributes to discussion

JESL, 2, 4 (1870): 400-2

 

June

9

Items obtained from Jersey

PRM accession book

 

June

14

According to Chapman, last official meeting of Anthropological Society

Chapman, 1981: 341

 

June

21

Emergency meeting of Ethnological Society about Dorchester Dykes, Lane Fox reads paper. He had visited site before meeting and collected artefact. Meeting held at United Services Institute.

Thompson, 1977: 124, Bowden, 1991: 76; JESL, 2, 4 (1870): 412-6

 

June

27

Ethnological Society meeting, PR present and contributes to discussion on Grimes Graves

JESL, 2, 4 (1870): 419-39

 

June

No days

Items acquired from Acton gravels

PRM accession book

 

June

No days

Items acquired from Jersey

PRM accession book

 

July

13

Items acquired from Northern France

PRM accession book

 

July

18

Items acquired from Jersey

PRM accession book

 

July

20

Lane Fox writes to Worsaae in Copenhagen on behalf of Ethnological Society Council about preservation of monuments

Thompson, 1977: 59

 

July

27

Lane Fox attends Greenwell's lecture on Grimes Graves at Ethnological Society

Thompson, 1977: 124; Chapman, 1981: 337

 

July

11, 15, No days

Items acquired from Acton gravels

PRM accession book

 

August

No days

Items acquired from Suffolk, Essex

PRM accession book

 

August

29

Items acquired from Acton gravels

PRM accession book

 

September

19

Items acquired from Acton gravels

PRM accession book

 

September

26, 29

Items acquired from Jersey

PRM accession book

 

October

27

Items acquired from Acton gravels

PRM accession book

 

November

8

Ethnological Society meeting, Lane Fox present and shows a Borneo stone tool, possibly item referred to in Chapman which he says was also shown at Society of Antiquaries

Journal of Anthropology, 1, 3 (1871): 360-362; JAI, 1, (1872): xxxix; Chapman, 1981: 342

 

November

28, 29

Items acquired from Acton gravels

PRM accession book

 

December

13

Anthropological Institute. meeting, Lane Fox present and contributes to discussion

JAI 1, (1872): xcii-xcvii , c-cxxi

 

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