40 KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY. 
delivered a course of lectures before the American Mathematical Society; he chose 
for his subject the Theory of the Top. One of the most recent works from the 
press of B. G. Tuebner of Leipsic is the first part of a treatise on the same subject 
by Prof. Klein. This dissertation was suggested by Klein and developed under 
his guiding hand. This is sufficient assurance that the work is up to date. That 
it possesses real merit is also vouched for by the fact that this thesis won for its 
author from the University of Goettingen the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 
magna cum laude. 
Although this work was written before its author became a Kansan, it reflects 
credit upon the state and the state institution which she represents.--H. B. N. 
