Referee's report by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, on a paper 'Stress and other effects produced in resin and in a viscid compound of resin and oil by electrification' by Joseph Wilson Swan Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The interest in the paper lies mainly in the figures. Some of them should be reduced to about a third of their current size and the rest should be published in their current size. The author is partner in a firm which makes process-blocks so perhaps he could present these blocks himself. Subject: Physics [Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1897]. 29 May 1897