Referee's report by Herbert Hall Turner, on a paper 'On the evolution of our galactic system' by Alexander William Bickerton Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The author has published his speculative theory repeatedly. The author is 'ambitious' to be working in a field of study already covered by 'many able mathematicians...but seems to have paid little attention to the difficulties they have already expounded'. [Not published] Endorsed on verso as received 4 April 1917. [April 1917]