Note 1 — Introductory material
Mary Frances Winston Newson translation
Translated for the BULLETIN, with the author's permission, by Dr. MARY WINSTON NEWSON. The original appeared in the Göttinger Nachrichten, 1900, pp. 253-297, and in the Archiv der Mathematik und Physik, 3d ser., vol. 1 (1901), pp. 44-63 and 213-237.