Professor Dyer's First Lecture Tonight.

At 8 o'clock tonight in the Fogg Lecture Room, Professor Louis Dyer of Oxford, England, will deliver the first of the three lectures on "Recent Discoveries in Crete." His special subject tonight will be "The Mycenaean Age."

Professor Dyer is a graduate both of Harvard and Oxford, and was formerly Assistant Professor of Greek at Harvard. Of recent years he has been studying at the University of Oxford, and has been actively connected with the recent research in primitive Greek Art, especially in that of the Mycenaean Period.

These lectures are based upon the recent discoveries in the Island of Crete by Mr. Arthur Evans, of Oxford, Director of the National Museum. It was in this island that Mr. Evans found the remains of an ancient temple, built 1400 years before Christ, which contained a large number of inscriptions, both in pictorial and linear writing. Up to the present time however no one has been able to translate them. The lecture to night will be of an introductory nature. On Tuesday and Friday nights the lectures will take up this ancient Cretan alphabet and the discoveries at Knossos and the Dictaen Cave. The three lectures will be illustrated by the stereopticon.

After the last lecture on Friday night, Professor Goodwin will hold a reception in honor of Professor Dyer, at Phillips Brooks House to which members of the Classical Club and friends are invited.