und vor Allem: weil sie mir völlig evident schien und noch scheint.”) Nevertheless, he asked Klein to state his views about these matters as clearly as possible:

> If your priority claim is directed toward the last part V \[of the report\] (ordinary multiple points) – which alone concerns Bertini etc., I have nothing against adding some information if that is suitable for you; if you however today believe, after such a long time and after your silence throughout the year 1870 when we corresponded with one another, that you have grounds for a priority claim for the resolution of points based on a remark that passed over me in 1869 without a trace, then that would not pertain to Bertini but rather to me: I would appear in rather false light as having known of Kronecker’s \[result\] and your successive method without citing these. I cannot see any good way to reach a compromise in this last respect, and so I must first ask you in this second, for me completely unanticipated case for precise indications as to how far you are now in disagreement with the above contents from my report.[^14]

As for Klein’s original request – that 