Referee's report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'On the existence of the decidua around the ovum within the fallopian tube, in four cases of fallopian-tube conception, and on the absence of any trace of decidua in the cavity of the uterus in the same cases' by Robert Lee Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions in its present form. Urges author to read his views on the paper and improve it. Refers author to a paper published by the Royal Institute of the Netherlands on the same subject. Subject: Physiology [Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1857]. 12 August 1857