'Man as he was and man as he is': General Pitt Rivers's collections

Journal of the History of Collections

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 75-85

  Petch, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0346065278     PISSN: 09546650     EISSN: 14778564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhc/10.1.75     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. T. K. Penniman, 'General Pitt Rivers', Man 46 (1946), pp. 70-1
2. B. Blackwood, The Classification of Artefacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (Occasional Papers on Technology II, Pitt Rivers Museum) (Oxford, 1970), p. 14
3. W. R. Chapman, 'Pitt Rivers and his collection, 1874-1883: the chronicle of a gift horse', in B. A. L. Cranstone and S. Seidenberg (eds.), The General's Gift: A celebration of the Pitt Rivers Museum centenary 1884-1984 (Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Occasional Papers no. 3) (Oxford, 1984), p. 6
4. For further details of his archaeological work see M. Bowden, Pitt Rivers: The life and archaeological work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, DCL, FRS, FSA (Cambridge, 1991), p. 8
5. E. B. Tylor, entry for Pitt Rivers, Dictionary of National Biography XXII, supplement, p. 1141
6. A. H. L. F. Pitt Rivers. 'The improvement of the rifle as a weapon for general use', Journal of the United Services Institute 12 (1858), pp. 453-88
7. W. R. Chapman, 'Ethnology in the Museum' unpublished D.Phil thesis, University of Oxford (1981), p. 41
8. Gray, op. cit. (note 10), p. xxxi
9. A. H. L. F. Pitt Rivers, 'Typological museums as exemplified by the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford and his provincial museum at Farnham Dorset', Journal of the Society of Arts (1891), p. 116
10. A. H. L. F. Pitt Rivers, Catalogue of the Anthropological Collection lent by Colonel Lane Fox for exhibition in the Bethnal Green branch of the South Kensington Museum June 1874 Parts I and II. (London, 1874, re-issued 1877), p. 71
11. A. H. L. F. Pitt Rivers, The Evolution of Culture and other Essays (Oxford, 1906), p. 46
12. W. R. Chapman, '"Like a game of dominoes": Augustus Pitt Rivers and the typological museum idea', in S. Pearce (ed.), Museum Economics and the Community 2 (New Research in Museum Studies) (London, 1991), pp. 153, 156
13. A. T. P. Cooper, 'Cranborne Chase and General Pitt Rivers', in Dorset Year Book 1977 (Weymouth, 1977), p. 10