Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'A new portable miner's safety-lamp, with hydrogen attachment for delicate gas-testing; with exact measurements of flame-cap indications furnished by this and other testing lamps' by Frank Clowes Not recommended for publication in Proceedings. The paper would be better published by the kind of society to which the subject relates. It 'does not contain a single observation which can be said to constitute a distinct contribution to natural knowledge'. Subject: Engineering [Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1892]. 23 January 1893