. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. STUDIES ON MUSEUMS AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS. 533 VI.—OXFORD. ' 20. UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, ETHNOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENT (PITT RIVERS COLLECTION). In Oxford, that famous old university town, which I visited first in 1S78, the chief attraction for me this time was the famous ethnograph- ical collection presented to the Oxford Musemn in 1884 by Col. Lane Fox (later (xeneral Pitt Rivers), who died in 1900. Subsequently Colonel Fox founded a new collect
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. STUDIES ON MUSEUMS AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS. 533 VI.—OXFORD. ' 20. UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, ETHNOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENT (PITT RIVERS COLLECTION). In Oxford, that famous old university town, which I visited first in 1S78, the chief attraction for me this time was the famous ethnograph- ical collection presented to the Oxford Musemn in 1884 by Col. Lane Fox (later (xeneral Pitt Rivers), who died in 1900. Subsequently Colonel Fox founded a new collection in Farnham (AViltshire), not far from Stoneheno-e, which has ])ecome quite as noted, but which, as it was too far away for me, I did not visit. The ethnographical collec- tion is in an annex added in 1887 to the university museum, a modern. Fig. 84—University Museum, Oxt'oni. Klhnouraiihiciil scctidii. (Pitt Rivers Collection.) gothic structure (1857-1860). I pass over the natural-science collec- tions, as I have no special remarks to make regarding ; The ethnographical collection, however, is distinguished from all other similar ethnographical collections in the world by the manner of its installation. ''In all ethnographical museums a geographical classification is adopted as the principal basis of arrangement, whereb}' all objects from the same region are grouped together—a system obviously "Prof. E. Ray , of the British ^luseuni, .said in 1S97 oonrerning the build- ing of the Oxford Universit}' IMuseuni: "Our great university inuseuiu building is simply an ; lieport Froceedlnys ^fuseumtl Associatiou, 1897, pp, 21-22 (1903).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Repor
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