PROFESSOR PATTERSON INVITED TO LECTURE IN EUROPE

Prof. S. G. Patterson, of the Department of Romance Languages, has recently received an invitation to deliver a series of lectures in French universities, while on leave from Dartmouth the second semester next year, on the subject of Franco-American Intellectual Relations. Another special invitation has come to him from M. Leon Duguit, the famous jurist and dean of law at the University of Bordeaux, to give several lectures next spring on phases of American legal thought. After delivering these Professor Patterson will go to Spain to study and give several other lectures.

Professor Patterson's field for many years has been the 18th century social literature of France, with its relations to the literature and social institutions of America and England.

He is now working on the first of several books dealing with Thomas Jefferson and French thought. He has had in his possession for some years a large amount of un- known Jefferson manuscript on this subject, and will complete work on it by researches in the French and Dutch archives.