Annie Meinertzhagen
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Annie Meinertzhagen (2 June 1889 – 6 July 1928) wis a Scottish ornithologist that made mony observes o British birds; her maist kenspeckle wark wis anent the mouting pattrens in douks an wadin birds.[1] She wis marriet til ornithologist Richard Meinertzhagen in 1921 an wis killt bi a shot frae a pistol in uncannie circumstances.
Annie Constance Jackson HMBOU | |
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Born | 2 Juin 1889(1889-06-02) Swordale, Ross-shire, Scotland |
Dee'd | 6 Julie 1928(1928-07-06) (aged 39) Swordale, Ross-shire, Scotland |
Cause o daith | Gunshot wound |
Eddication | Imperial College London |
Hauf-marrae(s) | Richard Meinertzhagen |
Bairns | 3 |
Awairds | Honorary Member of the British Ornithological Union (1915) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | ornithology |
Academic advisors | Ernest MacBride |
Born Annie Constance Jackson, tae Major Randle Jackson an Emily V. Baxter o Swordale, a toun in easter Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands. Mrs Jackson wis the dochter o Edward Baxter o Kincaldrum, Angus.[2] As a bairn, Annie got intae naitural history, maistly birds. Wi her younger sister Dorothy, who wad be an entomologist, she duin zoology for three years at the Imperial College of Science in London unner Ernest MacBride. In 1915, she furthset a scientific scrieve wi Macbride in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on the heirskip o colour pattrens in the stick insect Carausius morosus.[3]
The feck o her early ornithological wark wis duin at Swordale, in Ross and Cromarty, alangst the friths o Cromarty an Dornoch. She stertit furthsettin wark on the local birdlife in 1909. She wis interestit in bird migration an correspondit wi lichthouse keepers that wad send her specimens o sindle-kent birds. She gaithert the first Scottish Hairst specimens o the yellae-broued warbler an wis the first ornithologist to shaw that the Icelandic race o the reidshank (Tringa totanus robusta) wad tryst in Britain. She wad aften chum her cuisin, Evelyn V. Baxter, whiles she wis makkin ornithological observes.[4]