Referee's report by William Henry Smyth, on a paper 'On the results of periodical observations of the positions and distances of nineteen of the stars in Sir John Herschel’s lists of stars, favourably situated for the investigation of parallax, contained in part III. of the Philosophical Transactions for 1826, and part I. 1827' by John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Method used is modified version of that published in 1826. Has some criticism of the mathematics used, but this does not detract from the importance of the measurements. Subject: Astronomy [Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society] 5 March 1851