Referee's report by Rudolph Ernst Peirels, on a paper 'The excitation of nuclei by electrons' by Ian Naismith Sneddon and B F Touschek Sectional committee: Physics Recommended for publication in Proceedings. Disagrees with the author's use of the liquid drop model as he had hoped that this model was 'by now dead and forgotten'. The is some repetition of explanations and the last sentence is obscure. Lists modifications. [Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1940]. Date received not given. 1947