A criterion for the thermal stability of models of accretion discs is presented. It is shown to agree in the appropriate limit with the stability analysis of Shakura & Sunyaev. The two-temperature accretion disc proposed by Shapiro, Lightman & Eardley is shown to be thermally unstable.
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J. E. Pringle (1976) studied this question.