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JOHN BARTHOLOMEW (1831-1893)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 450 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:BARTHOLOMEW (1831-1893)  , Scottish cartographer, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the 25th of See also:December 1831 . His See also:father had a cartographical See also:establishment there and he was educated in the See also:work . He was subsequently assistant to the See also:German geographer See also:August See also:Petermann, until in 1856 he took up the management of his father's See also:firm . For this establishment, now known as the Edinburgh See also:Geographical See also:Institute, See also:Bartholomew built up a reputation unsurpassed in See also:Great See also:Britain for the See also:production of the finest cartographical work . Among his numerous publications mention may be specially made of the See also:series of maps of Great Britain reduced from the See also:Ordnance Survey to scales of z in. and h in. to 1 m., with See also:relief shown by contours and a systematic See also:scale of See also:colours . The in. series, which was extended (and its principles applied to many other See also:works) by Mr J . G . Bartholomew, who succeeded his father in the business, is the finest of its See also:kind ever produced . See also:John Bartholomew died in See also:London on the 29th of See also:March 1893 .

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