Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'A possible mode of propagation of the ‘slow’ or tail component in atmospherics' by A L Hales Sectional committee: Physics Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The author has overlooked work previously done on this subject. However, it isn't worthwhile to amend the paper in any way. [Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1948]. Date received not given. 1947