Referee's report by Edwin Bailey Elliott on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the partition of numbers. Part I' by Percy Alexander MacMahon He would like to know if the last investigation in the memoir is really a second proof or only an investigation valuable for its own sake . If the latter is true, this passage should be re-worded. Subject: Mathematics [Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1896]. 17 June 1896