She rose to be vice-president of the Royal Anthropological Institute and to leave vast collections to leading British museums.

[2] She married pathologist and anthropologist Charles Seligman in 1905, and helped write up his notes from his visit to New Guinea.

The British government was commissioning ethnographic surveys and the two of them undertook that work in Sri Lanka in 1907/8 studying aboriginal culture there.

[2] She would sort out genealogies and wider relationships including particularly women and children where she could gain access denied to men.

In 1958 she worked with the American born anthropologist, Marian Smith, to create the Royal Anthropological Institute's endowment fund.