Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'On the straining of the Earth resulting from secular cooling' by Charles Davison Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society', but should be published somewhere. Without calculations it is hard to find exact solutions. Has corresponded with William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, who has raised valid criticisms of the paper. Subject: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry [Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1894] 14 July 1894