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makes that information available at a glance, and 

 hence, simple as the device is, its introduction had 

 a revolutionary effect in cartography, all the more 

 so because it is found capable, like contouring 

 generally, of being combined with other methods 

 of representing physical features. 



The first important work issued by the institute 

 illustrating this new system was "The Survey 

 Atlas of Scotland," first published in 1895, which 

 was followed in 1903 by a similar atlas of England 

 and Wales. Previously to that Dr. Bartholomew 

 had published (1899) " The Atlas of Meteorology," 

 a work of immense labour with several original 

 features, which shows even more strikingly his zeal 

 for scientific geography, and amply justifies the 

 motto he had adopted, "Amore et labore." It came 

 out as vol. iii. of a great atlas of physical geo- 

 graphy which he had designed, but of which only 

 one other volume appeared during his life, "The 

 Atlas of Zoogeography," published in 191 1. 

 Much of the most devoted work of his latter years 

 was given to the preparation of the atlas (reviewed 

 in these columns a few weeks ago) now being 

 published under the title of "The Times Survey 

 Atlas of the World," by which he hoped to out- 

 rival the best works of the kind published in 

 other countries. 



But the Geographical Institute was far from 

 engrossing all Dr. Bartholomew's interests. He 

 was a member of council of the Royal Society 

 of Edinburgh from 1909 to 1912, but in Edin- 

 burgh he was, above all, known through his inti- 

 mate association with the Royal Scottish Geo- 

 graphical Society, of which he might with little 

 exaggeration be called the founder. From him, 

 at any rate, came the first suggestion of such a 

 society, and he was among the most eager of 

 that small body of men who in 1884 spent without 

 stint time, energy, and enthusiasm in getting it 

 established. He was an honorary secretary of 

 the society from the first, and remained so until 

 his death. By the council of that society he was 

 generally regarded as its mainstay and chief 

 directing spirit, and nowhere outside his family 

 will his loss be more keenly felt than on that 

 board. 



Dr. Bartholomew was an honorary member of 

 many foreign geographical societies. The Vic- 

 toria Research Medal, a medal not awarded regu- 

 larly every year, but only when there is a fit 

 recipient, was conferred upon him by the Royal 

 Geographical Society in 1905 "for his successful 

 efforts to raise the standard of cartography " ; and 

 in 1918 the Helen Culver gold medal was awarded 

 to him on like grounds by the Geographic Society 

 of Chicago. In 1909 he received from his own 

 university the honorary degree of LL.D. In 

 private life he was held by all who knew him in 

 the highest esteem, and as revealing his nature 

 nothing, perhaps, could be mentioned more char- 

 acteristic than that, in spite of the fact that he 

 lost a son in the war, he was able to speak even 

 of enemy countries with rare magnanimity. 



Geo. G. Chisholm. 

 NO. 2634, VOL. 105] 



We much regret to announce the death on 

 April 18, in his seventy-third year, of Dr. 

 Rudolph Messel, F.R.S., president of the Society 

 of Chemical Industry and past vice-president of the 

 Chemical Society. 



We notice with regret the announcement of 

 the death, very suddenly, on April 17, of Prof. 

 A. K. Huntington, emeritus professor of metal- 

 lurgy at King's College, London. 



We regret to record the death on April 18 of 

 Prof. L. T. O'Shea, professor of applied chemis- 

 try in the University of Sheffield and honorary 

 secretary of the Institution of Mining Engineers. 



Mr. James Gavlev, whose death was recently 

 announced, was the first vice-president of the 

 United States Steel Corporation and made many 

 important contributions to the progress of metal- 

 lurgical industry. He was president in 1904-6 

 of the American Institute of Mining and Metal- 

 lurgy and had been a member of the Iron and 

 Steel Institute since 1888. The honorary degree 

 of B.Sc. was conferred on him in 191 2 by the 

 University of Pennsylvania and Lehigh University ; 

 in 1906 he was awarded the Elliott Cresson medal, 

 and in 191 3 the Perkin medal, by the Franklin 

 Institute. 



Mr. Wilson Worsdell, whose death on 

 April 14 is recorded in the Engineer, was born 

 at Crewe in 1850, was educated at Ackworth, and 

 served a pupilage in the Altoona Locomotive 

 Works of the Pennsylvania Railroad. On return- 

 ing to this country Mr. Worsdell took up an ap- 

 pointment with the London and North-Western 

 Railway, and in 1883 became assistant locomotive 

 superintendent to the North-Eastern Railways in 

 1890 he was appointed chief mechanical engmeer 

 of the same railway. Up to the time of his re- 

 tirement in 1910 he supervised the construction of 

 more than 1000 engines for the North-Eastern 

 Railway. 



The death of Sir Charles Allen on April 13 

 is recorded in Engineering. Sir Charles was 

 born in 1851 and educated at Halifax and at a 

 technical college in Germany. In 1872 he 

 entered the Bessemer works at Sheffield, of 

 which his father, who was a brother-in-law of Sir 

 Henry Bessemer, became chairman in 1889. He 

 succeeded to the chairmanship on the death of 

 his father in 1899, and the remarkable success of 

 the company, especially in later years, is due 

 largely to his ability. Sir Charles recognised fully 

 the value, of metallurgical research, and gave 

 every encouragement in the developments of this 

 branch ; he was closely identified with the founda- 

 tion of the Bessemer' laboratory at the Imperial 

 College of Science and Technology. 



