Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Spheroidal wave-functions' by John William Nicholson Sectional Committee: Mathematics Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Refers to work by Marc-Antoine Parseval and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Suggests omitting some of the arithmetic, as '[it] is dull stuff'. [Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1925] Endorsed on verso as received 9 October 1924. [October 1924]