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 100 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. We have seen with pleasure the Prospectus of a work put forth under the title of the " Imperial Cyclopaedia," which is about to issue frona the fertile press of Mr. Charles Knight, so well known to the reading world as the first promoter of the cheap system of publication, through which information on all subjects has been placed withm the means of the less affluent members of the Community, and at so easy a rate that no mechanic need be without his books. The work now announced is a new edition, considerably enlarged, revised, and corrected, of the " Penny Cyclopaedia," so long popular with all classes, and which from time to time has contained many instructive essays, on historical, architectural, and local antiquities ; thereby contributing its aid to the more general diffusion of the Science of Archaeology. We are glad to perceive among the list of contriljutors the names of many zealous archaeologists who have occasionally favoured the Institute with original memoirs, and we are therefore not without hope that the Science which is daily acquiring public favour, will be still further promoted by the " Imperial Cyclopaedia," and a taste for its pursuit be gradually extended amongst a class of people who have very often oppor- tunities of rescuing from destruction interesting relics and memorials, but which are now passed by vmheeded, from the absence of any knowledge of their value, as tending to elucidate the history of their country or their fellow-creatures. A little book, acceptable to archaeologists, has been lately published by Mr. S. Bannister, M.A. ; being a brief description of the manuscript map of the ancient world, preserved at Hereford. Those who have visited the venerable cathedral of that ancient city, will remember this rare MS., of a date as early, probably, as the thirteenth century ; and the unpretending work which we now introduce to the notice of our readers will render it more generally known, and prove welcome to those who have not the opportunity of examining the original, We wish to call the attention of the local secretaries of the Institute, and its correspondents generally, to that section of the Journal containing Archaeological intelligence ; and to remind them that, by the communica- tion of mformation adapted to that head, they will greatly aid the cause of Archaeoloffv.