The Lowell Institute of which President Lowell is trustee, announces as the first course of free lectures for this year a series of eight dissertations on the population of France, to be given in French by Professor Raoul Blanchard under the general title of "Le Peuplement de la France." The next lecture, the third, will come on Monday.

Professor Blanchard, of Grenoble University, who was an exchange professor at Harvard in 1916 and 1917, and is now a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, began his lectures on October 3 at Huntington Hall in Boston.

The Institute's full program of lecture courses on historical subjects for 1927-28 will be completed by the following six general topics: "China," a series of eight lectures by Dr. S. K. Hornkeck of Harvard, beginning on November 28: "The Founders of the Middle Ages," eight lectures by Professor E. K. Rand '94 of Harvard, beginning on January 11, 1928: "The Foundations of Reform in England in the Nineteenth Century," six lectures by Professor E. P. Cheyney of the University of Pennsylvania, beginning on February 6: Struggles and Settlements on the Fringe of Rival Civilizations," six lectures by Sir H. B. Ames, beginning on February 27: "The Folk Songs of France, Italy, Germany, and Russia" four illustrated lectures by Professor A. T. Davidson '06 of Harvard: and "Twentieth-Century Discoveries in Physics," six lectures by Professor R. A. Millikan, of the California institute of Technology, beginning on April 13.