Anatol A. Smorodintzev, Russian discoverer of methods of combatting encephalitis and influenza, will give the annual Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine at the Harvard Medical School this afternoon. The subject of the lecture, which will be given in Amphitheater D at 5 o'clock, is "New Forms of Encephalitis in the U.S.S.R.
Head of the department of virus diseases at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Moscow, Dr. Smorodintzov received the Stalin Award for Distinguished Service for his work in encephalitis. He is in America as a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation, this being his first visit outside Russia.