The Overseers of the University will hold a special meeting today and tomorrow at University Hall to discuss with President Lowell and representatives of the Faculty the research work of the University. Last year the spring meeting was entirely devoted to college life and college administration. This year the Overseers will spend the full two days studying the contributions of the University to original research and the advancement of learning.

At 9.15 o'clock a business session will be held, following which President Lowell, Professor Archibald C. Coolidge and Professor Charles H. Grandgent will speak on various phases of the problems of research. A collection of books written by living members of the Faculty will be exhibited to the Overseers in the Faculty Room.

To Visit Laboratories.

After luncheon, which will be held at the Union, the Overseers will proceed to the Cruft Laboratory, where Professor G. W. Pierce will describe the studies in wireless telegraphy which are progressing there, and then to the Chemical Laboratory, where Professor T. W. Richards will tell about the chemical researches of the University. President Lowell will give a dinner at his house this evening to members of the Corporation and of the Board of Overseers.

Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock a second session will be held at University Hall, when Professor C. H. Haskins and Dean Edsall of the Medical School will discuss with the Overseers various phases of research.