English: Edinburgh Geographical Institute was built in Duncan Street in 1910. This title was used by the map-making and publishing firm of Bartholomew, and these were their premises. Several generations of Bartholomews made notable contributions to cartography. The grandfather, as Geographer and Cartographer Royal, founded the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 1884. He introduced layer colouring for relief representation in maps, of which an outstanding example was the Society's Atlas of Scotland published in 1895. John George Bartholomew (1890-1962) studied cartography at Edinburgh, Leipzig and Paris. His fame rested upon his Times Survey Atlas of the World, published posthumously in 1921. He was also a major benefactor of the University's Geography Department where he funded a chair of Geography. He succeeded his father as honorary Secretary of the R.S.G.S., a post he held for thirty years.