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  1. Penniman took advantage of war to purchase many objects flooding onto market
  2. Henry John Walters retired and was replaced by son Henry Frederick Walters
  3. Blackwood compiled catalogue of museum's lantern slides
  4. Very large number of volunteers worked in museum: Mr Gibbs, F.H.S. Knowles, A.S. Barnes, A.D. Lacaille, S. Hazzledine Warren, R.J.C. Atkinson, Miss J Watters, Mrs Meinhard, Mrs Maspero, Mrs Clibborn, RJC Atkinson, Kenneth Hutton, Major Pollard, Heinrich M
  5. Work continues on card catalogue system
  6. Displays worked on during the year: Balkan Peasant work, Stone implements
  7. Green shed reorganized to take M.D.W. Jeffreys collection donated by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum ?
  8. Museum House partly cleared, and lantern slides, negatives, films and photographs stored in basement ?
  9. Meinhard almost completed catalogue of Balfour collection, other volunteers included Mr Ford, Mrs Maspero
  10. Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, pottery, clothing, bone horn ivory implements, Malayan brasses, Maori cloaks,
  11. Death of Marett February 1943
  12. Following volunteers worked in Museum: Mr Robins, F.H.S. Knowles, G.E.S. Turner, Miss Nevell, Meinhard
  13. Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, food / water vessels, bone skates, early metallurgy, land transport models, treatment of dead enemies, lace
  14. Founding collection and artefacts transferred from Ashmolean Museum in 1886 were catalogued onto cards
  15. Work took place on stored collections in Museum House
  16. Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, pottery, fire-arms
  17. First Occasional Paper, 'The manufacture of a flint arrow head' by F.H.S. Knowles is published by museum
  18. Meinhard's work on the Jeffreys collection completed
  19. John Spencer Purvis Bradford appointed Departmental Demonstrator
  20. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  21. Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, fire-making, feather ornaments, boomerangs, harpoon spears, weighing appliances, fire-arms, Japanese netsuke, toilet appliances, personal ornaments
  22. J.S.P. Bradford actually joined staff
  23. Work carried out on collections stored in out-buildings and main Museum.
  24. F.H.S. Knowles volunteering working on stone tool displays
  25. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  26. Displays worked on during the year: Ancient and modern tools, stone implements, personal ornaments, toilet appliances, weight and measures, fire-making, fire-arms
  27. Edward Evans-Pritchard appointed Professor of Social Anthropology, 1946
  28. Return of Maori meeting house to Arawa people, New Zealand [previously property of Makereti, Mrs Staples Brown]
  29. Exchanges with other Museums resumed after the war
  30. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  31. G.E.S. Turner continued to volunteer
  32. R.C. Gurden joined staff as Librarian and Secretary
  33. Final member of Walters family joined staff, Kenneth Henry Walters as technician
  34. Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements, personal ornaments,
  35. Plans formulated by University Surveyors' to refurbish old Department of Geology accommodation adjacent to Museum for library etc
  36. Museum stores were moved from Museum House to the basement of the Examination Schools
  37. Museum lost 9 Crick Road to Dept of Botany
  38. Penniman assured that most musical instruments were in playing condition
  39. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  40. Displays worked on during the year: Much work undertaken to 'restore overcrowded cases to the original idea of General Pitt Rivers', cases in Lower Gallery
  41. Following volunteers worked in Museum: F.H.S. Knowles, G.E.S. Turner
  42. Penniman, Blackwood and Bradford elected Fellows of the Society of Antiquities
  43. Second Occasional Paper [Laura Start] published
  44. Department of Geology moved from building alongside PRM
  45. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  46. Balfour Library opened in former Dept of Geology space, together with new staff offices
  47. Displays worked on during the year: Stone implements
  48. Work on Balfour Library etc concluded
  49. Third Occasional Paper published, 'The Technology of a Modern Stone Age People in Central New Guinea' by Blackwood
  50. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  51. Displays worked on during the year: metallurgy, lighting, some ornaments case
  52. Fourth Occasional Paper published, 'Notes on the Prehistoric Metallurgy of Copper and Bronze in the Old World', by H.H. Coghlan
  53. Displays worked on during the year: Court near main entrance, also Geometrical Form in Art and Animal Form in Art and several of the Pottery cases, food containers etc
  54. Walter Charles Brice joined staff as University Demonstrator and Lecturer
  55. Technicians continued to work on pest control in the Museum
  56. F.H.S. Knowles ill so could not volunteer, G.E.S. Turner continued to volunteer
  57. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  58. New glass roof put on museum, whole building rewired
  59. Cataloguing work carried out on objects in Examination Schools basement
  60. Displays worked on during the year: Cases in Lower Gallery, and Court were rearranged including Human form in art, Barbaric and Civilized Popular art, Religious emblems and ritual objects, cosmetics, traps, fishing gear, currency, wooden locks, combs, med
  61. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  62. Fifth Occasional Paper published, 'Pictures of Ivory and other Animals Teeth, Bone and Antler'
  63. Displays worked on during the year: musical instruments displays, stone implements, some rearrangement of displays in the Lower Gallery including removing the display of objects associated with flagellation [!], and some displays in Upper Gallery includin
  64. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  65. F.H.S. Knowles died, 4 April
  66. Work at the museum adversely affected by building of new Chemistry department
  67. Laboratory for analysis of specimens set up
  68. Displays worked on during the year: craftman's tool case, looms and weaving, ceremonial staves, fishing and self-bows
  69. Sixth Occasional Paper published, 'Stone-Worker's Progress, a Study of Stone Implements in the Pitt Rivers Museum' by F.H.S. Knowles
  70. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  71. John Linton Myres died, last of the people associated with the setting up of the Diploma course
  72. Museum helped host 1954 Oxford BAAS meeting
  73. BAAS meeting held in Oxford, 2 sections were held at the Museum [Anthropology and Engineering]
  74. Seventh Occasional Paper published, 'Hair Embroidery in Siberia and North America' by G. E. S. Turner
  75. Second laboratory built within entrance lobby
  76. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  77. Audrey Butt joined as University Demonstrator and Lecturer in Ethnology
  78. Displays worked on during the year: None listed
  79. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  80. Blackwood allowed to continue work for 3 years after normal retirement age by University until 1959
  81. Displays worked on during the year: Barkcloth, stringwork, and further work on musical instruments, feather headdresses
  82. Eighth Occasional Papers published, 'Notes on Prehistoric and Early Iron in the Old World' by H.H. Coghlan
  83. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  84. New garden set up at rear of museum
  85. Displays worked on during the year: Musical instruments, Bronze and Iron Ages
  86. Title of Department of Ethnology changed to Department of Ethnology and Prehistory
  87. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  88. Displays worked on during the year: musical instrument displays, Bronze and Iron Age displays
  89. Work carried out on paintings and other 2D art storage
  90. Beatrice Blackwood starts work on compiling information which will later be published as 'The Classification of Artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.'
  91. Blackwood retired from PRM but continued to work at the Museum
  92. Ken Burridge appointed as Demonstrator
  93. Building work carried out on office area
  94. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman
  95. Displays worked on during the year: storage areas of museum, textiles, Australian shields, treatment of the dead, amulets, Far Eastern metallurgy, musical instruments, Chinese porcelain
  96. Roof repaired [again]
  97. Sometime during the 1960s separate Board of Visitors set up for PRM
  98. Work continued on card catalogue system by Blackwood and Penniman, other staff had become involved over the last few years and would in future take over maintenance of the records
  99. Blackwood worked on gazetteer of African group names
  100. Occasional Paper no. 9 published, 'Bagpipes' by Anthony Baines
  101. Displays worked on during the year: musical instruments, almost completing the incorporation of the musical instruments given by Balfour in 1939, magical objects, archery,
  102. A new Museum kitchen was built
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