Referee's report by Sydney Howard Vines, on a paper 'On the present position of the question of the sources of the nitrogen of vegetation, with some new results, and preliminary notice of new lines of investigation' by John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Considers the paper very long, suggests omitting some of the repetition. Subject: Chemistry, Botany [Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1889] 7 June 1888