Referee's report by Horace Lamb, on a paper 'On the problem of hydrodynamic stability. I. uniform shearing motion in a viscous fluid' by Richard Vynne Southwell and Letitia Chitty Sectional committee: Mathematics Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. It is a useful contribution to an obscure subject. [Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1930]. Endorsed on verso as received 18 July 1929. July 1929