Abraxas, 203, 238, 241
Acquired characters, inheritance
of, 337 ff.
Actinia equina, 361
Adaptation, 12, 318 ff.; to life in
caves, 319 ff.; fresh and salt
water, 327 ff.; poisons, 332 ff.;
temperature, 334 ff.; caused by
hormones, 342
Addison, W. H. F., 188
Agglutination, of corpuscles by
sera, 67 ff.; of sperm, 78, 82 ff.
Allolobophora terrestris, 46
Alpheus, 176
Alytes obstetricans, 337, 338
Amanita phalloides, 63
Amblystoma, 157, 368
Amelung, 184
Amphipyra, 283
Analogies between living and
dead matter, 14 ff.
Anaphylaxis reaction, 61 ff.
by acids, 105; by mechanical
agitation, 107; in starfish, 110;
role of hypertonic solution, 112,
115, 116; and oxidation, 116,
117, 118; and permeability,
119 ff.; in frogs, 124; and de-
termination of sex, 125
Artificial production of life, 38-39
Assimilation of CO2 without
chlorophyll, 17 ff.
Asterias, 49, 81, 110, 363; ochracea,
73 ff.; capitata, 74
Asterina, 75, 81, 110
Astrospheres, 115 ff., 192
Auer, J., 315
Autolysis, 351 ff.
Avena, 263
Beijerinck, M., 20
Berkeley, Lord, III
Bernard, Claude, 2 ff., 26, 159,
350, 354, 355, 358
Berthelot, 290
Bertrand, G., 248 ff.
Beutner, R., 140
Bichat, 2, 349
Bickford, E. E., 169
Blaauw, H. A., 263
Blackman, F. F., 302
Blastomeres, 141 ff.
Blind animals, 319 ff.
Blood, transfusion of, 53 ff.
Blood relationship, established by
transfusion, 53, 54 ff.; precipitin
reaction, 55 ff.; anaphylaxis re-
action, 61 ff.; hemoglobin crys-
tals, 64 ff.
Blood serum, precipitin reaction
of, 54 ff.; effect of, on unfer-
tilized eggs, 101 ff., 124
Blowfly, heliotropism of larvæ of,
265 ff.
Bohn, G., 253, 264, 269
Bombinator igneus, 46
Bonellia, 215
Bonnet, 154, 161
Bordet, 54 ff., 60
Bouin, 158, 225 ff.
Boveri, Th., 8, 126, 128 ff., 134,
138 ff., 150 ff., 186 ff., 209 ff.,
246
Brachystola, 199
Bradley, H. C., 27, 64, 353, 354
Brandt, 366
Bridges, C. B., 208, 229, 231 ff.
Brown, A. P., 64 ff.
Bruchmann, H.,
Bryophyllum calycinum, 153, 160
ff., 177
Buchner, 24
Budgett, 358
Buller, 93
Bunsen-Roscoe, law of, 11, 256 ff.,
261, 263, 264
Burrows, 31
Campanularia, 178, 181
Cardamine pratensis, 90
Carrel, 31
Cassia bicapsularis, 37
Castle, W. E., 89 ff., 335
Caullery, M., 158, 180, 217
Cave animals, 319 ff.
Cell division, 15, 29, 129 ff.;
suppression of, 113 ff.
Cells, nutritive media of, 15 ff;
immortality of, 30 ff.; mi-
grating, 44; mesenchyme, 51 ff.,
130 ff., 147, 155 ff.
Cerianthus membranaceus, 171 ff.,
188, 361
Chatopterus, 78 ff.
Chamberlain, M. M., 293, 297
Chapman, H. G., 60
Chemotropism of spermatozoa,
92 ff.
Child, C. M., 7, 170, 177, 358
Chlamydomonas, 277
Chodat, R., 248
Chologaster, 320
Christen, 288
Chromosomes, rôle of, in sex
determination, 198 ff.; theory of
Mendelian heredity, 233
Ciona intestinalis, 89 ff., 212
Cladocera, 159
Clausen, H., 302
Clavellina, 181
Cohen, E., 292
Cohn, 41 ff.
Compton, 90
Conklin, E. G., 129, 134, 143,
Constancy of species, 40-43
Copernicus, 346
Corpus luteum, action of, 157-158
Correlation, 154, 167
Correns, C., 90 ff., 214
Cramer, 289
Crampton, H. E., 143, 225
Criodrilus lacuum, 219–220
Crossing over of chromosomes,
Crystals, differences between living
organisms and, 14 ff.
Ctenolabrus, 355, 357, 359
Ctenophores, 142
Dieudonné, C., 334, 337
"Directive force," 2
Disharmonies, 7
Divisibility of living matter, limits
of, 148-151
Dominance, 230
Doncaster, L., 203
Dorfmeister, 303
Driesch, H., 4 ff., 128, 133, 136,
138 ff., 147, 150, 169 ff., 180 ff.,
184 ff.
Drosophila ampelophila, 204 ff.,
237, 243, 322, 347, 366
Duclaux, E., 288, 289
v. Dungern, 80
Duration of life, 360 ff.
Durham, 249
Dutrochet, 154
Dzierzon, 208
Ectoderm formation, 130 ff.
Egg, as the future embryo, 8, 9,
70, 126, 151; artificial partheno-
genesis of, 95 ff.; organisms
from, 128 ff.; determining unity
of organism, 151-152; chromo-
somes in, 198 ff.
Egg structure, 129 ff.; influence of
centrifugal force on, 135; and
regulation, 139, 140, 141; and
fluidity of protoplasm, 141
Ehrlich, 45, 322, 332 ff., 341;
side-chain theory of, 88, 188
Eigenmann, 320, 323 f.
Electromotive forces, origin in
living organs, 140
Engelmann, 357
Engler, 24
Entelechy, 4, 170, 182
Environment, influence of, 286 ff.;
temperature, 288 ff., 344 ff.;
salinity, 306; adaptation to, 319
Enzyme action, 23 ff., 297, 302
Ernst, A., 21
Eternity of life, 34 ff., 360
Eudendrium, 260, 261, 269, 277,
278, 326
Eudorina, 277
Euglena, 264, 269, 272, 277
Euler, H., 21
Evolution, 346 ff.; and mutation,
Ewald, W. F., 261 ff., 269, 280, 301
Fluctuating variations, 6, 297 ff.,
346 ff.
Folin, 22
Food, influence on polymorphism
in wasps, 222 ff.
Food castration, 224; influence on
sexual cycle in rotifers, 224; on
metamorphosis in tadpoles, 155
Ford, 63
Forssmann, 63
Frédéricq, 351
Free-martin, cause of sterility,
218-219
Friedenthal, H., 53 ff., 60
Frisch, K., 278, 279
Fröschel, P., 263
Fuchs, H. M., 90
Fucus, 123
Fundulus heteroclitus, 51, 116,
147, 300, 301, 302, 307 ff., 321
ff., 328 ff., 335, 337, 357 ff.
Galileo, 346
Galvanotropism, 11, 270 ff., 319
Gay, F. P., 62 ff.
Generation, spontaneous, 14 ff.,
34
Genes, 4 ff., 152, 319
Genus and species, chemical basis
of, 40 ff.
Germination in seeds, 35 ff.
Giard, 180, 216 ff.
Godlewski, E., 48, 75, 78, 120,
126, 169
Godlewski, E., Sr., 18
Gortner, R., 249
Graber, V., 256, 276
Grafting, heteroplastic, in animals,
Gravitation, influence on organ
formation in Antennularia, 194
ff.; on the egg of the frog, 141
Gray, J., 122
Gregory, 243
Groom, T. T., 280
Growth, termination of, 184; in-
fluence of cell size, 187
Gudernatsch, J. F., 155, 255, 342
Guyer, 124
Gynandromorphism, 209
Half-embryos and whole embryos,
Hammond, J. H., Jr., 269
Harden, 16
Hardesty, 358
Harmonious character of organism,
5, 6, 318 ff., 341 ff.
Harrison, 31
Hartley, III
Healing of wound, 187
Hektoen, 66
Heliotropism, 11 ff., 257 ff., 318;
heredity of, 250 ff.; change of,
279, 280 ff.; and adaptation,
318
Helmholtz, 34
Hemoglobins, crystallographic
measurements of, 64 ff.
Henderson, L., 317
Henking, 198 ff.
Herbst, C., 97, 147, 193, 306, 310
Heredity, of genus and species,
40 ff., 70, 151, 152; Mendelian,
70, 151 ff., 229 ff., 348; of sex,
198; sex-linked, 203 ff., 238 ff.;
and evolution, 348
Herlant, M., 78 ff., 115 ff.
Hermaphroditism, 89 ff., 212 ff.,
216, 219 ff. See also Inhibition
and Regeneration.
Hertwig, O., 97, 123, 292
Hertwig, R., 95, 97
Hess, C., 278
Heterogeneous hybrids, purely
maternal, 49, 50
Heterogeneous
Murphy's experiments on, 44 ff.;
limitation of, 46
Heteromorphosis, 155, 193-196
Hill, C., 25
Hippiscus, 199
Holmes, S. J., 269
Hoppe-Seyler, 351
Hormones, 145, 155, 181, 219; and
Mendelian heredity, 245 ff.,
348; and adaptation, 342.
See
also Organ-forming substances.
Huxley, 346
Hybridization, heterogeneous, in
sea urchins, 48 ff., 73 ff.; in
fishes, 51; in plants (Mendel's),
230 ff.
Hydrolytic enzymes, action of,
24; reversible action of, 24 ff.
Hypertonic solution, 99, 111 ff.
Imitation of cell structures by
colloids, 39
Immortality, of cancer cells, 30;
of somatic cells, 30 ff.; of life in
general, 34 ff.
Inheritance, of colour-blindness,
203, 204, 205; of eye pigment in
Drosophila, 204 ff.; of pigments,
248 ff.; of acquired characters,
337 ff.
Inhibition of regeneration in Bryo-
phyllum, 162 ff.
Inhibition of sexual characters of
opposite sex, in pheasants, 218;
lack of in hermaphrodites, 219;
in Bonellia, 226
Instincts, 10 ff., 253 ff.; sexual,
198 ff.
Intersexualism, 221
Intestine, formation of, 130 ff.
Isoagglutinins, 66 ff., 92
Isolation of blastomeres, 136 ff.
Kofoid, C. A., 143
v. Körösy, 300
Korschelt, 361
Krakatau, 21
Kraus, 54 ff.
Krogh, 292
Kryž, F., 335
Kupelwieser, H., 75
Lack of oxygen, influence on dis-
integration of tissue, 355 ff.
Ladoff, S., 224
Lamarck, 6
Laminaria, 165
Landois, L., 53
Landsteiner, 66
Lanice, 143 ff.
Lankester, E. R., 41
Leathes, J. B., 63
Leucana leucocephala, 37
Levene, 351, 352
Lewis, 183, 344, 364
Light, influence on organ forma-
tion, in cave animals, 319 ff.;
in Proteus, 325; in Eudendrium,
326. See also Heliotropism.
Lillie, F. R., 80, 82 ff., 87 ff., 93,
134, 191, 218, 292
Lillie, R. S., 101, 107, 110, 120 ff.
Lipase, synthetic action of, 26
Living and dead matter, specific
differences between, 14 ff.
Lloyd, D. J., III
Localization of Mendelian charac-
ters in individual chromosomes,
243, 244
Loeb, Leo, 30 ff., 45, 157, 170,
187 ff., 342
Loevenhart, A. S., 26 ff.
Lumbricus rubellus, 46
Lychnis dioica, 217
Lycopodium, 93
Lygaus, 201
Lymantria dispar, 220
Lymnæus, 142
Lymphocytes, rôle of, 45 ff.
Lyon, E. P., 134 ff.
Macfadyen, A., 36
Maeterlinck, 255
Magnus, W., 60
Maltase, synthetic action of, 25
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