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daughters, the elder of the two sons now the managing director of the 
firm styled Messrs John Bartholomew & Son, Limited. 
Both at home and abroad the value of Dr Bartholomew’s services to 
science were recognised in various ways. He was an honorary member 
of many foreign geographical societies, including those of Paris, Portugal, 
Budapest, and Chicago. In 1905 the Royal Geographical Society awarded 
to him the Victoria Medal “ for his successful effort to raise the standard 
of cartography.” In 1918 the Geographical Society of Chicago conferred 
on him the Helen Culver Gold Medal. In 1909 Edinburgh University, his 
Alma Mater , bestowed on him the honorary degree of LL.D. 
In spite of the drawback of ill-health the private life of Dr Bartholomew 
was singularly, though quietly, happy, a natural result of the qualities in 
him which inspired confidence and affection among all those who came 
into intimate contact with him. This notice may be concluded by 
testimony on this head borne by a Russian admirer, General Jules de 
Schokalsky, President of the Russian Geographical Society, in a com- 
munication to this Society, dated Petrograd, October 1920, just after he had 
heard the news of Dr Bartholomew’s death. After speaking in the highest 
terms of the value of Dr Bartholomew’s cartographical w T ork, taking as 
an illustration the remarkable precision even of his “ ordinary ” work 
in the map on Lambert’s equivalent area projection accompanying the 
paper by Dr (afterwards Sir John) Murray “ On the Height of the 
Land and the Depth of the Ocean ” in The Scottish Geographical Magazine , 
January 1888 — a precision such as to enable General A. Tillo to obtain 
valuable results working from a much reduced copy of it, — the writer goes 
on to say : — 
“ My personal acquaintance with J. G. Bartholomew began by corre- 
spondence. Being interested in geographical and cartographical matters, I 
was introduced to him by Sir J. Murray, and we remained a long time 
only in correspondence. At the opportunity of the Geographical Congress 
at Geneva in 1908 I paid a visit to Edinburgh, and was for a fortnight the 
guest of Mr and Mrs J. G. Bartholomew ; and later we met at Geneva, 
staying in the same hotel and working side by side on the Congress 
business, and became true friends. In 1912 I came on a second visit 
to Edinburgh, and stayed about ten days at the J. G. Bartholomew’s 
home. 
“ These opportunities of meeting and talking with J. G. Bartholomew 
and observing his system of working, his relation to his aids in the 
Institute and surrounding scientists and other people, revealed his true 
character as a man. . . . He was the personified truth itself, and at the 
