Referee's report by Herbert Graham Cannon, on a paper 'The motor nervous system of the starfish, Astropecten irregularis (Pennant), with special reference to the innervation of the tube feet and ampullae' by James Eric Smith Sectional committee: Zoology Recommended for publication. The style of the paper is heavy and it should be shortened throughout . It is an 'extremely fine piece of work' but has been written with a misconceived idea of the terms 'metamorism' and 'metameric segmentation'. [Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 1940]. Date received not given. 1949