12 DECEMBER 1952, Page 16

Ebe aipertatar, Member lltb, 1852

ACCORDING to previous appointment, Lord John Russell went down to Leeds in order to preside over the annual soirée of the Mechanics' Institute, which took place on Wednesday . . . [He] delivered his oration upon the general state of knowledge at this time. In doing so, he showed how all the developments of modern science flowed from the adoption of Bacon's principles of investigation. He strongly urged his hearers, however much they might be interested in the various sciences which of late had made so much progress (and which may be called the useful sciences), to study astronomy, on account of the magnificent results which it unfolds.