Referee's report by Cecil Reginald Burch, on a paper 'Light distribution near focus in an error free diffraction image' by E Wolf Sectional committee: Physics Paper reference code: A116 Recommended for publication in Proceedings. Burch writes: 'Although I have no hesitation ok ing the paper as it stands, I think I might be able to help the author to improve his statement...' Suggests improvements to make the paper less mathematical and technical. [Published in Proceedings A, 1951]. Date received not given. 12 July 1950