Referee's report by George Downing Liveing, on a paper 'Total eclipse of the sun observed at Caroline Island, on 6th May, 1883' by William de Wiveleslie Abney Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper 'is a most extraordinary jumble, and the style worse than slipshod'. The apparatus is described three times, in a contradictory way. Suggests the paper be re-written. The extract from Lieutenant Quathough's report is insufficient. Suggests including a description of the programme of works. Wonders 'who would trust a record of observations compiled in [such a] slovenly way?' Subject: Astronomy [Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1889] 28 July 1887