An illustrated public lecture on the ancient palace of Knossos in Crete will be given by Dean George H. Chase, professor of Archaeology and Curator of Classical Antiquities, this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Semitic Museum, Divinity Avenue, Cambridge.

This is the first of a series of six illustrated public lectures dealing with archaeological excavations in Egypt, the Near East, and Crete, which are to be given in the Semitic Museum. The other lectures, all at 4 o'clock, are:

Friday, March 6--"The Ancient City of Van." Professor Robert P. Blake, of Harvard University.

Wednesday, March 11--"The Archaeology of Palestine and the Gospels." Professor Kirsopp Lake, of Harvard University.

Friday, March 13--"Archaeology and the Book of Acts." Professor Henry J. Cadbury, of Harvard University.

Wednesday, March 18--"The Discovery of a Phoenician City and of its Literature at Ras Shamra." Professor Robert H. Pfeiffer, of Harvard University.

Friday, March 20--'The Unplundered Tomb of an Egyptian Queen (Hetep-heres)." Mr. Dews Dunham, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.