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A year in the life: 1877
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Month |
Day |
Event |
Source of information |
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January |
9 |
Lane Fox chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute |
Peter Rivière |
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January |
23 |
Lane Fox chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute; reads paper about measurements of soldiers under his command |
JAI 6 (1877): 443-457; Chapman, 1981 Chapter 6 |
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January |
30 |
Lane Fox chairs AGM of Anthropological Institute, gives presidential address. Elected vice-president of Anthropological Institute |
Peter Rivière |
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February |
13 |
Item acquired from Anthropological Institute |
PRM accession book |
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February |
27 |
Lane Fox present meeting Anthropological Institute, contributes to discussion |
JAI 7 (1878): 21-43 |
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March |
13 |
Lane Fox acquires Cypriot material ?auction. This could be Cesnola piece actually purchased 23.3.77 |
PRM accession book |
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March |
21-23 |
Lane Fox purchases Cesnola material, Sotheby's auction |
Sotheby catalogue, Bodleain Library |
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March |
23 |
Lane Fox acquires other objects ?auction [possibly at same auctions as Cesnola material?] |
PRM accession book |
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March |
27 |
Lane Fox chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute, contributes to discussion |
JAI, 7 (1878): 82; 96-99 |
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March |
27 |
Lane Fox involved in review of volunteers at Dunstable on Easter Monday |
The Times 27 March 1877 |
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April |
3 |
Lane Fox attends review of Volunteers at Dunstable, Kent |
Manchester Guardian 3 April 1877 |
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April |
10 |
Lane Fox present at meeting of Anthropological Institute, contributes to discussions |
JAI 7 (1878): 118-123; 232-274 |
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April |
12, 14 or 15 |
Lane Fox's 50th birthday |
See 1827 for uncertainty about date |
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April |
24 |
Lane Fox gives paper with WL Distant at Anthropological Institute on Photos from the Andamans and Malaccas |
Morning Post 23 April 1877 p. 7 |
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May |
8 |
Lane Fox present at meeting of Anthropological Institute, contributes to discussions. Lane Fox chairs and discusses Beddoe's report on Queensland Aborigines |
JAI 7 (1878): 138-140; 142-145; 145-8 |
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May |
22 |
Lane Fox present at meeting of Anthropological Institute, contributes to discussions. Reads paper on SPAB and another on ancient monuments in Ohio |
JAI 7 (1878): 165-185; 186; 186-187 |
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May |
No days |
Lane Fox excavating in Guildford Whitmoor Common |
PRM accession book; Bowden, 1991: 83 |
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May |
No days |
Items acquired from Brittany, France |
PRM accession book |
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June |
1 |
Lane Fox attends meeting of Archaeological Institute and talks to W.M. Flinders Petrie |
Alice Stevenson pers comm. |
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June |
12 |
Lane Fox chairs meeting of Anthropological Institute; contributes to discussions |
JAI 7 (1878): 202-205 |
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June |
14 |
Lane Fox attends meeting at Society of Antiquaries |
Athenaeum 2591 (1877 June 23) |
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June |
22 |
Lane Fox attends State Ball at Buckingham Palace |
The Times 23 June 1877 |
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June |
28 |
Lane Fox attends concert at French Embassy |
Morning Post 29 June 1877 p. 5 |
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June |
29 |
Lane Fox goes to see Hampton Court canoe found in Thames, reads paper to Anthropological Institute meeting in June presumably on same day or day after |
Lane Fox A.H. 1878 ‘On the discovery of a dug-out canoe in the Thames at Hampton Court.’ JAI 7 [1878] 102-3 |
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July |
6 |
Items acquired from Bryce Wright [some not marked as such so might be from another source] |
PRM accession book |
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July |
10 |
Delivery of items from Lane Fox to Bethnal Green |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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July |
17-23 |
Lane Fox digging with George Rolleston in Sigwell, Somerset |
Thompson, 1977: 57, 124; Bowden, 1991: 84 |
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July |
23 |
Lane Fox examining 'camp' at Charwell |
Account given with letter dated 26 May 1878 to George Rolleston Ashmolean Museum |
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August |
10 |
Hampton Court canoe dated |
PRM accession book |
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August |
13 |
Delivery of items from Lane Fox to Bethnal Green Museum |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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August |
18, 21 |
Lane Fox at British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at Plymouth, talking about excavations at Plymouth. Does not appear to have stayed for all of meeting |
The Times 18 August 1877; Manchester Guardian 18 and 21 August 1877 |
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September |
2 |
Lane Fox excavating Mount Caburn, Newhaven, Ranscombe, Sussex. With Rolleston, John Evans and Francis Galton at Mount Caburn |
Thompson, 1977: 125, dates PRM accession book, The Times 18 September 1877 |
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September |
25 |
Objects obtained, possibly from auction/ Bryce Wright |
PRM accession book |
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September |
27 |
Delivery of items from Lane Fox to Bethnal Green Museum |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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September |
No days |
Items obtained in Sussex |
PRM accession book |
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September - October |
No days |
Lane Fox excavating Mount Caburn and Ranscombe |
Thompson, 1977: 55, 125 |
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October |
1 |
Promoted Major-General |
Thompson, 1977: 53, 125; Gray, 1905: x; London Gazette (24508: 5461); Chapman, 1981 Chapter 6 |
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October |
11 |
Items obtained possibly at auction? |
PRM accession book |
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October |
12 |
Delivery of items from Lane Fox to Bethnal Green |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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October |
No days |
Item purchased in Paris, might be mistake for October 1878 [see on] |
PRM accession book |
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November |
13 |
Lane Fox attends meeting of Anthropological Institute, exhibits flints from Egypt before paper read by Burton |
JAI 7 (1878): 323-324 |
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November |
27 |
Lane Fox attends meeting of Anthropological Institute, exhibits items from Istria and Scinde; contributes to discussions, reads paper on the Anthropometric committee |
Peter Rivière, JAI 7 (1878): 364-372; 372-378; JAI 7 (1878): 391-393 |
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December |
7 |
Lane Fox attends meeting at Archaeological Institute |
Athenaeum 2616 (15 Dec 1877) |
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December |
11 |
Paper read about Cissbury excavations by J Park Harrison and JG Jeffreys, Lane Fox apparently not present but comments |
JAI 7 (1878): 412-431 |
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December |
17 |
Items obtained from Solomons, ?auction |
PRM accession book |
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December |
24 |
References made to Lane Fox's collection at Bethnal Green |
The Times 24 December 1877 |
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December |
28 |
Delivery of items from Lane Fox to Bethnal Green Museum |
Day or Van book known as Green book |
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No month |
No day |
Lane Fox gives up command in Guildford; retires on General's half-pay |
Thompson, 1977: 125; Chapman, 1981: Chapter 6 |
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No month |
No day |
2nd edition of catalogue of Lane Fox's collection at Bethnal Green / South Kensington Museum published |
Gray, 1901: xi |
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No month |
No days |
Lane Fox inspects Kintbury site, report to Anthropological Institute |
JAI, 7 (1878): 104-105 |
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No month |
No days |
E.H. Man's report on Andaman Islands given by Lane Fox |
JAI 7 (1878): 105-109 |
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