Referee's Report by [Leonard] Bairstow on a paper 'The approximate prediction of skin friction and lift' by [Norman Augustus Victor] Piercy, [Joseph Henry] Preston, and [Leslie] G Whitehead Paper reference code: A.82 Sectional committee: Engineering Believes the aeronautic paper is more suitable for publication elsewhere as it is not of sufficient quality for the Royal Society. [Not published in RS journals but published in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 26(178), 791–815]. Received 21 June 1938 [May - June 1938]