Evelyn Vida Baxter LLD FRSE FLS FZS MBE (29 March 1879 - 1 October 1959) was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist, and the first woman to receive Union Medal of the British Ornithological Union.
[2] With Rintoul, H F D Elder, and George Waterston, Baxter was one of the co-founders the Scottish Ornithologists' Club on 24 March 1936.
During World War II she volunteered with the Women's Land Army while also teaching at Sunday school where she was known as "Miss Evie".
[1] Along with Rintoul, Baxter became, in 1951, the only non-graduates out of eight women Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In 1955 the University of Glasgow awarded her the honorary of Doctor of Laws (LLD).