Referee's report by Hugh Hamshaw Thomas, on a paper 'The wood anatomy of the family Sterculiaceae' by M M Chattaway Sectional committee: Botany Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It contains valuable information and deals with a subject that has wide significance. Some of the figures have already been published in Forestry and the New Phytologist. The block of the figures could be borrowed to save expense. [Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 1937]. Endorsed on verso as received 28 May 1937. 27 May 1937