PAGE LINE FOR READ 8 23 Warren Hector 79 14 1731 1733 133 8 Sinton Linton ” 19 Holt Holl ” 26 Watt’s Watts’s 195 1 Wesley Westley 215 19 St. Philip’s St. Philip 216 31 Paleozoic Palæozoic 217 33 ” ” ” 34 _Triassic_ _Trias_ 219 4 Coldfield Coalfield 220 23 Rhœtic Rhætic 221 1 _Spirorks_ _Spirorbis_ ” 6 Colebrookdale Coalbrookdale 222 4, 16, 28 Archean Archæan 226 1 Parley Purley ” 5 Shales shales 228 8 Landovery Llandovery ” 16 _Attrypa_ _Atrypa_ 231 last line its material the material 235 16 in turns in turn 240 32 _omit_ various lamellibranchs ” 37 _add_ SILURIAN 252 11 _astarte_ _Astarte_ ” 21 erractic erratic INTRODUCTION. BY G.J. JOHNSON. This Handbook, being prepared for the use of the members of the British Association, at their meeting in Birmingham, in 1886, it is deemed desirable to preface it by a very brief sketch of the progress of the town since the first meeting here of the Association in 1839, a period only three years short of half a century. =The Corporation.[1]=--When the Association met in Birmingham, on the 26th of August, 1839, the Borough had recently been incorporated--the first meeting of the Town Council having been held on the 27th of the previous December; but when the Council attempted to exercise the power of making a Borough Rate, the Overseers refused to levy it in consequence of objections which had been raised to the validity of the Charter. In addition to these pecuniary difficulties, the town was just recovering from the effects of the Chartist riots, in the Bull Ring, seven weeks before. The Corporation had not the control of a single policeman or constable, and the town was in charge of a body of London police. The same day on which the Association met, the Royal assent was given to an Act (2 and 3 Vic., c. 88), hurriedly passed, to appoint a Commissioner of Police in the Borough for two years, and to authorise an advance of £10,000, for the purpose of organizing and paying a police force.