Handbook of Birmingham / Prepared for the Members of the British Association, 1886

by British Association for the Advancement of Science

INDEX.

• Almshouses, [xvi.], [xvii.], [xix.]
• Architecture, [118]
• Art Gallery, [xiii.]
• Art Gallery Purchase Fund, [xviii.]
• Art, School of, [xviii.]
• Artists (Local), [132]
• Cox, David, [128]
• Jones, E. Burne, [131]
• Mason, Geo., [130]
• Aston Hall, [126]
• Baskerville, John, [9]
• Baths and Parks, [xi.]
• Botany—
• Algæ, [335]
• Flowering Plants, Ferns, etc. of Warwickshire, [316]
• Worcestershire, [320]
• Staffordshire, [327]
• Fungi, [339]
• Hepaticæ, [333]
• Ick, Wm., [313]
• Introductory remarks, [311]
• Lichens, [333]
• Mosses of Warwickshire, [331]
• Worcestershire, [332]
• Staffordshire, [333]
• Perry, W. G., [313]
• Purton, Tho., [312]
• Students’ Garden, [315]
• Withering, Wm., [312]
• Botanical Gardens, [357]
• Boulton, M., [10]
• Chamberlain, J. H., [52], [57], [125]
• Charitable Institutions—
• Blind Institution, [93]
• Children’s Hospital, [88]
• Deaf and Dumb, [92]
• Dental Hospital, [89]
• Dispensary, [85]
• Ear and Throat Hospital, [89]
• Eye Hospital, [86]
• General Hospital, [81]
• Homœopathic Hospital, [90]
• Lying-in Charity, [87]
• Orthopædic Hospital, [86]
• Queen’s Hospital, [83]
• Sanatorium, [90]
• Skin and Lock Hospital, [91]
• Women’s Hospital, [91]
• Clubs, [xx.]
• Contributors, [v.]
• Corporation, History of, [ix.]
• Corporation Land, [xiv.]
• Cotton Spinning, [9]
• Coventry Industries—
• Artistic Work in Metal, [370]
• Bradford Stuff Manufacture, [368]
• Coach Lace, etc., [368]
• Cotton Spinning and Weaving, [367]
• Cycle Manufacture, [369]
• Elastic Web, [367]
• Ribbon Trade, [366]
• Silk Dyeing, [368]
• Trimming Trade, [369]
• Watch Manufacturing, [368]
• Dawson, Geo., [112], [133]
• Debating Societies, [74], [79]
• Deritend Chapel, [5]
• Dickens, Ch., [78]
• Directories, [9]
• Drainage Board, [14]
• Dudley Trust, [xviii.]
• Ecclesiastical—
• Aston, Parish of, [94], [102]
• Baptists, [107], [116]
• Birmingham, Parish of, [94]
• Burial Grounds, [117]
• Cemeteries, [117]
• Chapels, [106]
• Churches, [94]
• Congregationalists, [109], [113], [116]
• Dissenters—see Nonconformists, [105]
• Edgbaston, Parish of, [94], [101]
• Friends, Society of, [110], [116]
• Jewish Synagogue, [112]
• Methodists, [111], [113], [116]
• Nonconformist Churches and Chapels, [105]
• Parishes of the Borough, [94]
• Presbyterians, [112]
• Quakers (see Friends), [110], [116]
• Roman Catholics, [113], [116]
• Swedenborgians, [113]
• Unitarians, [106], [116]
• Wesleyans, [110], [116]
• Elementary Education, [58]
• Religious Education and Voluntary Schools, [60]
• Technical School, [59]
• Free Libraries, [xviii.]
• Gas and Water Companies, [xiii.]
• Geology & Physiography—
• Abberley, [218]
• Anticlinal, [217]
• Archæan Rocks, [222]
• Arden, Forest of, [216]
• Arenig Rocks, [240]
• Atherstone, [225], [256]
• Aymestry Limestone, [230]
• Axes of Elevation, [214], [217]
• Bala Rocks, [240]
• Bangham Pit, [236]
• Barnt Green, [213], [226]
• Barr Beacon, [214], [240]
• Barr, Great, [214], [227], [240]
• Barr Limestone, [228]
• Bibliography of Birmingham Geology, [263], [265]
• Birmingham Plateau, [215]
• Black Country, [213], [216], [232]
• Boulder Clay, [248], [253]
• Boulder Clay, lower, [249]
• Boulder Clay, upper, [249], [252]
• Brazil Wood, [256]
• Breccia, Volcanic, [235]
• Bridgnorth, [238]
• Bromsgrove, [242]
• Brooch Coal, [231]
• Budleigh Salterton, [237]
• Bunter, [237], [250]
• Caldecote, Volcanic Rocks of, [223], [225]
• California, [241], [249]
• Cambrian Rocks, [218], [221], [224-227]
• Cannock Chase, [213], [232], [239]
• Caradoc Rocks, [240]
• Carboniferous Rocks, [218], [221], [230-234]
• Carboniferous Limestone, [230], [234], [241]
• Charnwood Forest, [217], [221]
• Charnwood Forest, Rocks of, [223], [256]
• Chilvers Coton, [226]
• Clent Hills, [214], [236], [253]
• Coalfield, Forest of Wyre, [218], [230], [234]
• Coalbrookdale, [218], [230], [234]
• Coalfield, South Staffordshire, [218], [227], [230]
• Coal Measures, [218], [230], [234]
• Coal, [260]
• Coalfield, Coalbrookdale, [234]
• Coalfield, Warwickshire, [234]
• Copt Heath, [248]
• Croft, [224]
• Crystalline Rocks, [221]
• Devonian Rocks, [241]
• Drainage of Mines, [262]
• Dost Hill, [226]
• Droitwich, [243]
• Dudley, [214], [216], [218], [227], [230], [234]
• Dudley, Limestone of, [229], [261]
• Edge Hill, [245]
• Edgbaston, [215]
• Enderby, [224]
• Enville, [235]
• Erratic Blocks, [249], [251]
• Fenny Compton, [245]
• Fire Clay, [260]
• Fossils, Cambrian, [224], [227]
• Carboniferous, [233], [241]
• Devonian, [241]
• Lias, [245]
• Ordovician, [240]
• Post Tertiary, [252]
• Rhætic, [247]
• Silurian, [228], [240]
• Trias, [241]
• Fundamental Rocks, [221], [224]
• Geology, [216], [265]
• Geological Formation, Table of, [220], [221]
• Glacial Deposits, [248], [253]
• Glacial Sands, [249]
• Gypsum, [242]
• Hailstone Quarry, [259]
• Halesowen, Sandstone, [230], [232]
• Hamstead, [232], [262]
• Harborne, [215]
• Harbury, [245], [248]
• Hartshill, Rocks of, [225]
• Hawkesbury, [234]
• Heathen Coal, [230]
• Hockley, [241]
• Hollybush Sandstone, Fossils of, [224]
• Hollybush Sandstone, [221], [224], [227]
• Igneous Rocks, [221], [225], [233], [236], [250], [253], [254-260]
• Insect Beds, [246]
• Ironstones, [231], [260]
• Jurassic Rocks, [220], [244-248]
• Ketley, [252]
• Keuper, [237]
• Keuper Sandstone, [243]
• Keuper Marls, [219], [237], [240]
• King’s Heath, [242]
• Kinlet, [260]
• Kinver Edge, [239]
• Laurentian Rocks, [222]
• Lea Rock, [222], [258]
• Lias, [244-247]
• Lias, Lower, [246]
• Lias, Upper, [245]
• Lias, White, [245], [247]
• Lichfield, [240]
• Lickey, Quartzite of, [226]
• Lickey Hills, [213], [218], [226], [228], [236]
• Lilleshall, [252]
• Lima Beds, [245]
• Limestone, Dudley, [261]
• Lingula Flags, [224]
• Lingula Flags, Fossils of, [224]
• Llandovery Rocks, [226], [228], [240]
• Ludlow Rocks, [228]
• Malvern Hills, [217], [254]
• Malvern Hills, Rocks of, [221], [224], [254]
• Marlstone, [245]
• Marston Jabet, [257]
• Mason College, Museum of, [229], [253]
• Mayhill Sandstone, [227], [240]
• Mesozoic Rocks, [220]
• Metamorphism, [256]
• Midland Plain, [213], [219]
• Millstone Grit, [230], [234]
• Mining Statistics, [260-263]
• Moseley, [215]
• Mottled Sandstone, Lower, [237]
• ” ”, Upper, [237], [241]
• New Mine Coal, [231]
• Nuneaton, [216], [218], [256]
• Nuneaton, Rocks of, [223], [225]
• Old Red Sandstone, [218], [221]
• Ordovician Rocks, [220], [240]
• Palæozoic Rocks, [216], [236]
• Pebble Beds, [237], [239], [244]
• Pentamerus Rocks, [228]
• Permian Rocks, [220], [235]
• Permian Sandstone, [235]
• Permian Breccia, [235]
• Petrography, [254]
• Physiography, [213], [216], [238]
• Pig Iron, [261]
• Post Glacial Deposits, [253]
• Post Tertiary Deposits, [248], [253]
• Park Hill, [234], [259]
• Primary Rocks, [216-236]
• Quartzite, Hartshill, [225]
• ” Lickey, [226], [227]
• Rea, River, [215]
• Rhætic Rocks, [247]
• Rhyolites, [222], [258]
• Rock Formations, Local, [220]
• Rowley Regis, [214], [233], [250], [259]
• Rowington, [243]
• Rubery, [226], [228]
• Sapcote, [224]
• Saltley, [215]
• Sandwell Park, [232]
• Secondary Rocks, [220]
• Sedgley, [214], [216], [227], [229]
• Shinton Shales, [222], [227]
• ” ” Fossils of, [227]
• Shustoke, [253]
• Silurian Rocks, [218], [227], [230]
• Smallheath Park, [242]
• Sorrel, Mount, [223], [255]
• Spirorbis Limestone, [230]
• Square Work, Mining, [262]
• Steel, [261]
• Stourbridge, [239]
• Stockingford Shales, [225]
• Sutton Park, [215], [239]
• Swinnerton Park, [260]
• Tame River, [213], [215]
• Tamworth, [226], [234]
• Thick Coal, [231-234], [262]
• Titterstone Clee Hill, [259]
• Tremadoc Rocks, [224]
• Trentham, [241]
• Trias, [217], [219], [237-244]
• Triassic Rocks, how formed, [243]
• Tattle Hill, [226]
• Walsall, [228], [230], [234], [259]
• Warwick, [242]
• Waterstones, [237], [241]
• Water Supply, [244]
• Wellington, [217], [252], [258]
• Wenlock Limestone, [229]
• Weoley Castle, [249]
• Wilmcote, [246]
• Wolverhampton, [251]
• Woolhope Limestone, [228]
• Wooton Wawen, [248]
• Wrekin, [218], [222], [227], [258]
• ” Rocks of, [222], [227]
• Wren’s Nest, [214], [216], [227]
• Grammar School—
• Bill of 1830-31, [30]
• Branch Schools, [29], [31]
• Corruption in Management of, [29]
• First Statutes, [27]
• Foundation; Revenue, [26]
• Head Masters, [37]
• Honours Gained by Pupils, [36]
• New Scheme for, [33]
• Number of Scholars, [34]
• Present Building, [31]
• Reform Association, [33]
• Scholarships; Second Building, [28]
• Gifts to the Town, [xvi.]
• Guinea Gardens, [358]
• Hollins, Geo., [143]
• Hospital Saturday, [xx.]
• ” Sunday Collection, [xx.]
• Jaffray Suburban Hospital, [xix.]
• Leland’s Visit, 1538, [5]
• Lench’s Trust, [xvi.]
• Libraries—
• Byron, Cervantes, & Milton Collections, [73]
• Early, [65]
• Free, [69]
• ” Rate Unlimited, [xiii.]
• Shakespeare Memorial, [73]
• Suburban, [74]
• Sunday Opening, [74]
• Lunar Society, [75]
• Magazines, [78], [79]
• Manufacturing Industries—
• Ammunition, [199]
• Arc Lighting, [184]
• Assay Office, [177]
• Assayed Wares (Table), [178]
• Automatic Machinery, [173]
• ” Shaping, [173]
• ” Turning, [173]
• Bedsteads, [178]
• Bit, or Doctor, [175]
• Brassfoundry, [180]
• Block Paper, [179]
• Boiler Plate, [179]
• Britannia Metal, [202]
• Bullion Trade, [181]
• Buttons (Pearl), [181]
• Canal Traffic, [151]
• Cast Iron Ware, [181]
• Cementation, [171]
• Champlevé process, [204]
• Chilled Castings, [170]
• Classification of, [152]
• Clocks, [183]
• Cloisonné, [203]
• Cobalt, [201]
• Coinage, [182]
• Colouring, [176]
• Copper, Prices of, [180]
• Dealers and Merchants, [156]
• Dependent Manufactures, [155]
• Dipping, [176]
• Doctor, or Bit, [175]
• Drawing Through, [174]
• Electric Lighting, [183]
• ” ” Town Hall, [184]
• Enfield-Martini Rifle, [174], [196]
• Fire Clay, Stourbridge, [206]
• Fish Hooks, [200]
• Gas Holders, [180]
• German Silver, [201]
• Glass, Crown, [202]
• ” Flint, [186]
• ” Plate, [202]
• ” Sheet, [202]
• Gold Cutting, [176]
• Goods Traffic, [151]
• Hydraulic Machinery, [187]
• Hinges, [187]
• Hollow Ware, [181]
• Implements and Tools, [155]
• Jewellery, [187]
• Artistic Progress, [189]
• Bullion used, [188]
• Charges, [188]
• Chemistry, [189]
• Distribution, [190]
• Labour and Wages, [188]
• Mechanical Conditions, [189]
• Precious Stones, [190]
• Prices, [190]
• Lacquering, [176]
• Lapping, [176]
• Lighthouse Apparatus, [191]
• Locks, [193]
• Magic Lantern Slide Painting, [193]
• Martini-Henry Rifle, [196]
• Matchets, [206]
• Measuring Rules, [193]
• Mercury Gilding, [206]
• Military Arms, [194]
• Mint, Birmingham, [183]
• Monkey, or Spirit, [175]
• Nails (cut), [199]
• Needles, [200]
• Nickel, [201]
• Papier Mâché, [202]
• Parasols, [210]
• Pewter, [202]
• Pins, [200]
• Plate Duty (Table), [178]
• Plated Wares, [203]
• Press Tool Work, [172]
• Processes, [156]
• Refrigeration, [204]
• Rifles, [194]
• Rolling, [171]
• Rolling Cross, [171]
• Rope Making, [204]
• Salt, [206]
• Sand Blast, [176]
• Scratch Brushing, [176]
• Shaping, [173]
• Soldering, [175]
• Spinning, [174]
• Spirit, or Monkey, [175]
• Stamping, [172]
• Steel Pen Trade, [205]
• Swords, [206]
• Tin Plate Ware, [206]
• ” (Waste), [208]
• Tools, [208]
• Tube Drawing, [171]
• Tubes, Taper, [172]
• Umbrellas, [210]
• Watch Manufacture, [210]
• Welding (Gas), [180]
• Wire Drawing, [171]
• ” Mattresses, [179]
• ” (Steel), [212]
• ” Working, [211]
• Materials used—
• Acids, [158]
• Alloys, [170]
• Bessemer Process, [169]
• Button Lac, [168]
• Carnubia Wax (Brazil), [168]
• Carozo Nuts, [168]
• Casting, [170]
• Chemicals, [152], [159]
• Chili Bars, [170]
• Copper, [170]
• Cow Hair, [168]
• Cryolite, [167]
• Dye Stuffs, [164]
• Gums, [161]
• Gum Animi, [168]
• ” Kourie, [168]
• Istle, [168]
• Kittool, [168]
• Lard Oil, [168]
• Lead, [170]
• Leather and Fabrics, [162]
• Lemon Peel, [168]
• Metals, [157]
• Metals and Alloys, [169]
• Mica, [160], [168]
• Nitrate of Soda, [167]
• Oils, [161]
• Ores, [156], [169]
• Piassava, [168]
• Pigments, [160]
• Stones, [160]
• Talc, [165]
• Varnishes, [162]
• Woods, [163]
• Mason, Sir Josiah, [45]
• Mason Science College—
• Connection with Queen’s College Academic Board, [51]
• Cost and Endowment, [xviii.]
• Liberty to vary Course of Instruction, [48]
• Library, [52]
• Non-theological and Non-political Character of, [48]
• Objects, Foundation Deed, Trustees, [46]
• Town Council represented on; Opening of, [50]
• Magazines, [78], [79]
• Mechanics Institute, [77]
• Metallurgical Classes, [57]
• Meteorological Observatory, [57]
• Midland Institute—
• Canon Kingsley’s Address: Formation of Classes in Laws of Health, [55]
• Formation of Teachers’ Board, [58]
• Government of, [53]
• New Buildings of, [55]
• Objects and Origin, [52]
• Removal of School of Art; Expansion of Metallurgical Classes, [57]
• Union of Teachers and Students, [56]
• Voluntary Classes, [54]
• Municipal School of Art, [xviii.], [61]
• Murdock, W., [133], [141]
• Music, [141]
• Musical Festivals, [82], [142]
• Newspapers, [79], [361]
• Newman, Cardinal, [113], [133]
• News Rooms, [68], [69]
• Old Houses, [6], [118]
• Orphanages, [xvii.], [xix.]
• Osler, A. F., [76]
• Pamphlets, [78]
• Painting, [127]
• Parks & Recreation Grounds, [xii.]
• Philosophical Institutions, [76]
• Picture Exhibitions, [76], [133]
• Portraits, [133]
• Post Office Growth, [xv.]
• Priestley, Dr., [66], [107], [140]
• Prince Rupert’s Raid, [7]
• Printers and Booksellers, [8]
• Queen’s College—
• Abolition of Religious Qualification, [42]
• Charity Commissioners’ Scheme for, in 1867, [41]
• Collegiate System, [40]
• Connection with Mason College, [44]
• Decay of, [41]
• Foundation of, [37]
• Original character of, [39]
• Scholarships: Present condition of, [44]
• Strict Church of England character of, [38]
• Various Departments and Chairs, [42], [43]
• Sanatorium, [90]
• School of Art Building, [xviii.]
• Foundation and Progress, [61-63]
• School Board Scholarships, [60]
• School of Medicine, [77]
• Sculpture, [135]
• Society of Arts and Exhibitions, [76]
• Soho Circle, [11]
• Soho Works, [10]
• Statues, [139]
• Sunday Lectures, [358]
• Technical School, [59]
• Theatres, [362]
• Town Council & Committees, [21]
• Town Hall, [119]
• Watt, James, [141]
• Women’s Hospital, [92]
• Wyatt, John, [9]
• Zoology—
• Birds, [275]
• Accipitres, [275]
• Alectorides, [280]
• Anseres, [283]
• Columbæ, [279]
• Fulicariæ, [280]
• Gallinæ, [279]
• Gaviæ, [281]
• Herodiones, [282]
• Limicolæ, [280]
• Odontoglossæ, [283]
• Passeres, [276]
• Picariæ, [279]
• Pterocletes, [279]
• Pygopodes, [282]
• Steganopodes, [282]
• Tubinares, [282]
• Fishes, [285]
• Abdominal Malacopterygii, [286]
• Acanthopterygii, [286]
• Apodal Malacopterygii, [288]
• Chondropterygii, [289]
• Subbrachial Malacopterygii, [288]
• Insects, [293]
• Introduction, [266]
• Coleoptera, [294]
• Lepidoptera, [301]
• Mammals, [269]
• Carnivora, [270]
• Cheiroptera, [269]
• Insectivora, [270]
• Pachydermata, [273]
• Rodentia, [271]
• Ruminantia, [272]
• Microscopic Fauna, [305]
• Annelida, etc., [309]
• Arachnida, [305]
• Crustacea, [306]
• Entomostraca, [306]
• Hydrozoa, [309]
• Infusoria, [309]
• Insecta, [305]
• Polyzoa, [307]
• Rhizopoda, [310]
• Rotifera, [307]
• Spongida, [309]
• Mollusca, [289]
• Conchifera, [290]
• Gasteropoda, [291]
• Reptiles, [273]
• Anoura, [274]
• Ophidia, [274]
• Sauria, [273]
• Saurophidia, [273]
• Urodela, [274]

Printed by Hall and English, High Street, Birmingham

---

GEOLOGICAL SKETCH-MAP
OF THE
BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT.

By CHAS. LAPWORTH, LL.D., F.G.S.

J. Bartholomew, Edin^r.

HALL & ENGLISH, LITH^RS., BIRMINGHAM.

FOUNDED ON THE MAPS OF H.M. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, AND EMBODYING THE RESULTS OF THE RECENT RESEARCHES OF MIDLAND GEOLOGISTS.