174 Proceedings of the Koyal Society of Edinburgh. [Sess. 
From 1909 to 1912 he was a member of Council of this Society. 
Only those who knew Dr Bartholomew personally could be aware 
of the extraordinary difficulties under which the above-enumerated series 
of persevering labours were carried on, and the extraordinary resolution 
revealed in carrying them through, and only those who knew him in 
his earlier years could realise the whole nature of the man. For a great 
part of his life, and, above all, in his later years, he had to contend against 
constant weak and too frequently ill health. Sometimes he was absolutely 
laid aside, but, except on those occasions, he went on steadily and calmly 
with his work to the limit of his strength, and never lost his interest 
in those things which he had at heart. Again and again, before Council 
meetings of the Geographical Society, I had interviews with him in bed, 
and the advice that he had to give on those occasions was always eagerly 
looked for by the other members of Council. 
This constant fight with ill-health naturally gave to him in his later 
years a somewhat melancholy expression ; but it was always a calm, grave, 
and dignified melancholy untouched by any hint of complaint. It was, 
however, an expression that made it difficult to realise the buoyant and 
exuberant energy which characterised him when young, and brought 
out other sides of his character. I remember particularly one occasion in 
the early days of our acquaintance when seated on a brake in the island 
of Jersey I was hailed by him from another brake which was going on the 
same tour. The two brakes stopped at the same place for lunch, and Mr 
Bartholomew, as he then was, entered with sympathetic zest into the 
enjoyments of the youngest and most frivolous. Then it was quite easy to 
picture to oneself the energy which he had shortly before shown at the 
foundation of the Geographical Society. 
His later years were further saddened for him, as for others, by the 
War, but in connection with it also his character was revealed. He took 
the War as a call to national and personal duty, but — though he lost a son 
in the War and had another maimed — without any admixture of national or 
personal hatred, but always regarding it as a great human tragedy. It 
may be mentioned here that he was for many years an elder in the 
United Free Church of St George’s, Edinburgh. 
In the later years of his life he frequently had to leave his home in 
search of improved health. It was on one of those occasions that he met 
his end. Early in 1920 he went to Esterel in Portugal, accompanied by his 
wife and daughters. Having been taken up to Cintra in the hope that 
the hill air would benefit him, he died there on the 13th of April in the 
same year, and there he is buried. He left a widow, two sons, and two 
