Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon, FRS Encloses a referee's report on the paper 'The Ratio of the Specific Heats of Nitrogen and of Oxygen' by [James Riddick] Partington and A. B. Howe, which Professor [Harold Baily] Dixon communicated; if the authors can shorten the paper slightly, it is likely to be published in the Proceedings. [Enclosure not present.] Also informs Dixon that his and [Gilbert] Greenwood's paper 'On the velocity of sound in gases and vapours, and the ratio of the specific heats' is being sent to the printers. 4 January 1924