Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The forces on a cylinder or flat plate submerged in a uniform stream' by Thomas Henry Havelock Sectional Committee: Engineering Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Finds the paper more suitable for the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. The problems addressed are not new and have been discussed elsewhere. The paper is lengthy and the formulae complicated. [Not published] Endorsed on verso as received 31 January 1938. [January 1938]