Referee's report by William Edward Garner, on a paper 'The period of impact, the time of initiation and the rate of growth of the explosion of nitroglycerine' by Frank Philip Bowden, M F R Mulcahy, R G Vines and A Yoffe Sectional committee: Chemistry Recommended for publication in Proceedings. One of the figures may be omitted. It cannot be compressed by much . [Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1947]. Letter (dated 9 March 1946) states that he is returning the paper and all his criticisms have been met. Letter endorsed on verso as received 11 March 1946. 1946