Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'A characteristic type of instability in the large deflections of elastic plates I Curved rectangular plates bent about one axis II Flat square plates ben about all edges' by D G Ashwell Sectional committee: Engineering Paper reference code: A40 Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Southwell has no hesitation in recommending the paper for publication, comments 'the choice of problem is ingenious, the treatment lucid; and the experimental verification very satisfactory', with some minor comments. [Published in Proceedings A, 1952]. Date received not given. 22 March 1952