Royal Scottish Geographical Society

This launched a period as a celebrity, lecturing and receiving acclaim for her adventures. According to her obituary she was the heroine of the hour, summoned by the king for a personal account of her...

MC 's Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society is mentioned without comment by various sources, but it was in fact highly controversial. The Society had included a handful of female Fellows since 1884, but purely...

IB , already a member of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society , became the first woman Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London.

The Royal Geographical Society in London invited IB to speak to them in 1891 after her travels through India and Persia; she was the first woman they had ever asked. She declined because the Society...

Her papers, formerly held by the London publishing house of John Murray , are now in the National Library of Scotland . Both the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society hold some...