![Miss Isabella Bird](http://fh1-fmp-wp01.dun.fh/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Isbaella-bird-244x300.jpg)
Isabella Lucy Bird, explorer, natural historian, writer and the first woman to be elected a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society in London, died in Edinburgh on 7 October 1904 – she was 71.
Included below are two, contemporary newspaper tributes that report on her remarkable life and achievements.
![Death of Isabella Bird](http://fh1-fmp-wp01.dun.fh/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Bird.jpg)
![Death of Isabella Bird](http://fh1-fmp-wp01.dun.fh/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Bird-2.jpg)