Referee's report by Gilbert Cook, on a paper 'The plastic theory of bending of mild steel beams with particular reference to the effect of shear forces' by Michael Rex Horne Sectional committee: Engineering Paper reference code: A227 Recommended for publication in the Proceedings with Bleaney's remarks: 'The paper is an interesting and important contribution to the theory of the plastic bending beams...' and describes the 'chief criticism' of the paper being 'the excessive condensation of the mathematical analysis'. [Published in Proceedings A, 1951]. Date received not given. 14 December 1950