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interval that elapsed between the drawing up of the prospectus and the 
appearance of the volume resulted in a great change in the selection and 
arrangement of the plates. The scheme as originally prepared was that 
of the late Philip Lutley Sclater, but the zoologists under whose care the 
volume was actually prepared were W. Eagle Clarke, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., 
Keeper, and Percy H. Grimshaw, F.R.S.E., F.E.S., Assistant Keeper of 
the Natural History Department, the Royal Scottish Museum ; and the 
classification adopted naturally answered to the state of zoological science 
at a later date than that of the prospectus. 
Though the other volumes of the atlas have not yet appeared, it may 
be taken for granted that some of the work done with a view to their 
publication has been utilised in other works. Thus the volume on 
Ethnography and Demography was designed to include plates illustrating 
the Production of Edible and Drinkable Commodities, International 
Commerce at the End of the Nineteenth Century, and others on the 
same subjects as some of those in the folio Atlas of the World's 
Commerce (176 plates), published by Newnes early in the present century. 
Dr Bartholomew was also responsible for the preparation of the atlas 
accompanying the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908). At the time of his 
death he had supervised the preparation of nearly all the plates for the 
important political atlas recently completed and published under the title 
of The “ Times ” Survey Atlas of the World. 
Inevitably Dr Bartholomew’s zeal for geography w r as manifested in 
many ways apart from the work carried out in the Geographical Institute. 
Most conspicuously was this the case in connection with the Royal Scottish 
Geographical Society. He was one of the most active and enthusiastic 
of those who encountered and vanquished all the difficulties that had to be 
overcome in getting it founded in 1884. From the beginning till the time 
of his death he acted as one of its honorary secretaries. He was the 
contributor both of maps and articles to its magazine — the articles on 
“ The Mapping of the World,” in vols. vi and vii. He took a special 
interest in the preparation of the Edinburgh number issued in 1919, and 
for it he presented to the Society the interesting “ Chronological Map of 
Edinburgh showing Expansion of the City from the Earliest Times to the 
Present” (a “ present,” however, previous to the last extension of the 
city boundaries). 
He bequeathed to the Society the sum of £500. 
He took great interest in the establishment of the lectureship in 
Geography in Edinburgh University, and was a generous benefactor to the 
department when the lectureship was founded and equipment required. 
