Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh on a paper 'On the absorption of light by gaseous, liquid and solid xenon' by John Cunningham McLennan and R Turnbull Sectional committee: Physics Recommended for publication in Proceedings, The experimental results are interesting and important and difficult technical problems have been served. The general discussion portions of the paper are somewhat 'vague and diffuse' . [Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1930]. Endorsed on verso as received 3 July 1930. July 1930