Women became eligible for membership as Fellows in 1913 and include such women who are well known to archaeologists and other branches of science such as Gertrude Bell, Freya Stark, and Gertrude Caton-Thompson who worked with individuals knows to archaeologists such as Dorothea Bate, Dorothy Garrod, Winifred Lamb, Mary Leakey, and Kathleen Kenyon.
This article features more on some of the early RGS funded expeditions.
Source:
Sarah L. Evans, “Terra Incognita: Women on Royal Geographical Society-Supported Expeditions 1913-1970″ (PhD diss., University of the West of England, 2015), 90, 112.
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