The following corrections should have been made to the article by Timothy Garrard, ‘Myth and Metrology: the early trans-Saharan gold trade’ (J. Afr. Hist., XXIII, iv (1982), 443–61). Unfortunately, the author, due to travel in Africa, was unable to check the proofs himself.

p. 444, n. 7 For 1965 read 1955

p. 446, n. 27 For 425–5 read 424–5

p. 449, n. 55 For ‘Dated solidi’ read ‘A barbarous North African solidus’.

p. 449, n. 56 Read: Grierson, ‘Dated solidi’, 49–51; Whitting, ‘A seventh-century hoard’, 226

p. 450, line 14 For ‘oil:’ read ‘oil!’

p. 450, line 25 For ‘towns’ read ‘town’

p. 450, n. 62 For ‘154 n. 43’ read ‘154 n. 53’

p. 455, n. 88, line 2 Read: II, 56–60

p. 456, n. 95 Read: II, 166

p. 457, line 2 Read: an average

p. 457, line 32 Read: Roman and Akan

p. 457, n. 104, line 2 Read: I, 161–2

p. 459, line 3 For ‘tramis’ read ‘tremis’