The opening lecture of the illustrated series on "German Architecture" to be given by Professor Adolph Goldschmidt, of the University of Berlin, visiting lecturer on Fine Arts and the History of German Culture, will take place this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Germanie Museum.

This lecture, one of a group of six to be delivered during the winter under the joint auspices of the Fogg and Germanic Museums, will be given in German and will be illustrated by lantern slides showing in detail the development of German architecture from the Dark Ages through mediaeval times.

The topic of Professor Goldschmidt's discussion this afternoon will be. "The Period of Charlemagne and the New Forms of Architecture North of the Alps." All members of the University and the general public are invited.

The remaining lectures of the series will be given in the "Germanic Museum on the following days:

November 16 "Romanesque Churches from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Century": November 30 "Gothie Architecture in Germany, its Derivation from France and its Particular German Forms": December 7 "North German Brick Architecture and its Decoration": December 14 "The Hall-Church and its Transition to the Renaissance Building": December 21. "Architecture and Decoration of the Baroque Churches in Germany in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries."