Referee's report by Alfred Daniel Hall, on a paper 'Analyses of agricultural yield. Part I.—The spacing experiment with Egyptian cottom, 1912' by William Lawrence Balls and Francis S Holton Sectional Committee: Botany Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Considers the paper pretentious, 'as though the writer had formed a much exaggerated idea of the importance of his communication and was anxious to communicate that feelings of importance to his readers'. [Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1915] Endorsed on recto as received 26 May 1914. 25 May 1914