Chronology
- 1860: born in Edinburgh on 22 March
- 1880: begins work for his father in the family's map-making business
- 1884: co-founder of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
- 1884-1920: honorary secretary, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
- 1887: elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1888: succeeds his father in the family business
- 1888: elected to the Royal Geographical Society of London
- 1892: secretary, Section E, British Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1895: publishes his Survey Atlas of Scotland
- 1899: publishes his Atlas of Meteorology
- 1903: publishes his Survey Atlas of England and Wales
- 1905: receives the Victoria Research Gold Medal from the Royal Geographic Society
- 1909-1912: council member, Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1910: appointed Cartographer Royal by King George V
- 1911: publishes his Atlas of Zoogeography
- 1918: receives the Helen Carver medal from the Geographical Society of Chicago
- 1920: dies at Sintra, Portugal, on 14 April
- 1922: first edition of the Times Survey Atlas of the World posthumously published
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