 Solution

An elliptic function for a lattice $\Lambda$ is a meromorphic function on $\mathbb{C}$ satisfying $f(z+\lambda )=f(z)$ for all $\lambda \in \Lambda$. Its order is the number of poles, counted with multiplicity, in a fundamental parallelogram, equivalently the degree of its map from the torus to the Riemann sphere. Differentiation preserves the periods. If the distinct poles have orders $r_1,\dots ,r_s$, the derivative has exactly the same pole locations with orders $r_j+1$. ThereforeThe bounds use $1\le s\le m$, valid for a nonconstant elliptic function.

For the Weierstrass elliptic function $\wp$, $f=\wp {\wp }^{\prime }$ has a single pole of order five, so its derivative has order six. For the second example choose $c$ not a critical value of $\wp$ and choose $a$ away from zero and the two points where $\wp =c$. Thenhas a double pole at $a$ and three simple poles: the quotient has residue $-2$ at zero and residue 1 at each of its two other poles. No locations overlap. Hence its order is five and its derivative has order $3+2+2+2=9$, as required.