Referee's report by the Mathematical Committee, on a paper 'On the geometrical treatment of the 'normal curve' of statistics, with especial reference to correlation and to the theory of error' by W F Sheppard This report should be forwarded to the author for consideration. A preface should be added and it should be explicitly stated that a geometrical treatment demand a geometrical definition. Figure one should be omitted. The paper will be improved if these changes are made. Subject: Mathematics [Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1897]. 1897