Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'A comparison of experiment and calculated wave-profiles and wave-resistances for a form having parabolic waterlines' by W C S Wigley Sectional Committee: Mathematics Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. As the paper was communicated by Thomas Henry Havelock, will assume the contents are new. Has suggested a few minor alterations to style on the manuscript. [Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1934] Endorsed on verso as received 28 October 1933. [October 1933]