The annual series of Hyde lectures under the auspices of the Cercle Francais will be given this year by M. Etienne Emile Marie Boutroux, the French philosopher and member of the Institute. The course, which will consist of a series of eight lectures on "Contingence et Liberte," will probably from part of French 7. These will be followed by a course of public lectures, the subjects of which will be "Pascal," "Auguste Comte," "L'essence de la religion," and "Le mouvement philosophique contemporainen France."