https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/Tramping around every part of Scotland, Evelyn Baxter(1879-1959)and her friend, Leonora Rintoul, are recognised as the foremost Scottish ornithologists of their day. The unique data they noted and collected was supplemented by accounts from others, and published in the two-volume Birds of Scotland (1953). A compelling story, which weaves together scientific and historical detail with warm remembrances of the family’s ‘Aunt Evie’ https://minervascientifica.co.uk/evelyn-baxter/SPEAKERS:Catherine Booth – Science Historian and retired Science Curator, National Library of ScotlandMrs June Baxter – a member of Evelyn Baxter’s familyMUSIC:Marie Dare (1902–1976 )“A widow bird sate mourning” for SATB Unaccompanied Choir; words by Percy Bysshe Shelley; performed by Frances M Lynch, Francis St. John and Herbie ClarkeThe Three Cherry Trees for voice and piano; words by Walter de la Mare; Margaret Cameron (Mezzo) and Frances M Lynch (Piano)“The Grey Geese” for voice and piano; words by C. Ethel Evans; performed by Frances M Lynch

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