Referee's report by Rudolph Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'The binding energies of very light nuclei' by Herbert Fröhlich, Kun Huang and Ian Naismith Sneddon to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society Sectional committee: Mathematics Recommended for publication in Proceedings. Lists modifications that should be made. [Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1947]. Date received not given. 1947