The Organism as a Whole, from a Physicochemical Viewpoint
v. Körösy, 300
Korschelt, 361
Krakatau, 21
Kraus, 54 ff.
Krogh, 292
Kryž, F., 335
Kupelwieser, H., 75
Lack of oxygen, influence on disintegration 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
_Leucæna leucocephala_, 37
Levene, 351, 352
Lewis, 183, 344, 364
Light, influence on organ formation, 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., 111
Localization of Mendelian characters 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
_Lygæus_, 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
Marchal, P., 222 ff., 254
_Margelis_, 192
Mass of chromatin and of cytoplasm, 186
Mast, 269, 277
Mathews, A. P., 107, 363
Matthaei, G. L. C., 302
Maxwell, S. S., 270, 274, 277
McClendon, J. F., 122, 322
McClung, C. E., 68, 198 ff., 237
Megusar, 340
Meignon, 217
Meisenheimer, 225
Meltzer, S.J., 315
Membrane formation, 86 ff.; artificial, 98 ff.
Mendel, G., 23, 229 ff.
Mendelian characters, and evolution, 70, 348; and internal secretions, 243, 348; and enzymes, 247, 248, 249
Mendelian, factors of heredity, 4 ff., 68, 151 ff.; mutation, 66; dominant, 90; segregation, 229 ff. _See also_ Non-Mendelian inheritance.
Mendelian heredity, mechanism of, 229 ff.; and chromosomes, 233 ff.; and hormones, 245 ff., 348; and enzymes, 247 ff.
_Menidia_, 51, 321, 323
Merogony, 120, 126, 186
Merrifield, 303
Mesenchyme formation, 130 ff.
Metamorphosis of tadpoles induced by thyroid, 155, 156
Metchnikoff, 361 ff., 367 ff.
Michaelis, L., 62, 317
_Micrococcus prodigiosus_, 334
Micromeres, 132 ff.
Minot, 362
Moenkhaus, W. J., 51, 344
Molisch, 20
Montgomery, 199, 234
Moore, A. R., 50, 247 ff., 280
Morgan, T. H., 46, 68, 89 ff., 95, 116, 126, 134, 141 ff., 173, 175, 184, 204 ff., 229 ff., 241 ff., 244, 347
Morse, M., 156, 353
Morton, J. J., 44
Moss, W. L., 67
Muller, H. J., 229, 231 ff.
Murphy, J. B., 44 ff.
Mutation, 6, 42, 243; and evolution, 347, 348
Myers, 55
Nathanson, 19
Natural death, 361 ff.
Neilson, 110
Newman, 344
Newton’s Law, 253
Nitrifying bacteria, 16 ff.
Non-Mendelian inheritance, genus and species characters, 70, 151, 251; rate of segmentation, 246; first development, 247
Northrop, 366
_Nostocaceæ_, 21
Nussbaum, M., 149
Nuttall, G. H. F., 56 ff.
_Ocneria dispar_, 225
_Œnotherus_, 369
Onslow, H., 249
Organ-forming substances or hormones in regeneration, 154 ff.; causing metamorphosis in tadpoles, 155-157; decidua formation, 158; development of milk glands, 158; Sachs’s theory of, 159
Organisms from eggs, 128 ff.
Origin of life, 14 ff., 33 ff.
Osborne, 23
Osterhout, W. J. V., 312
Ostwald, Wo., 29, 305, 312
Oudemans, 225
Overton, 123
_Palæmon_, 193
_Palæmonetas_, 193; geotropism of, 270
_Palinurus_, 193
_Pandorina_, 277
Parker, G. H., 264, 269
Parthenogenesis, artificial, 95 ff.; “spontaneous,” 107
Pasteur, 14 ff., 24, 33, 38
Patten, B., 264 ff
Pauli, W., 289
Pavy, 350
Payne, F., 322
Pearl, R., 203, 244
_Penicillium_, 289
_Pennaria_, 192
Pepsin, synthetic action of, 28, 62, 63
Pfeffer, 92 ff.
Phagocytosis, 367
_Planaria_, 173 ff., 177
_Planorbis_, 142
Plants, heteroplastic grafting in, 47 ff.; regeneration in, 160 ff.
_Polygordius_, 280
Polymorphism, 222
_Porthesia_, 256, 280 ff.
Preadaptation, 12, 324
Precipitin reaction, 54 ff.
Preformation of organism in egg, 128 ff., 142-145
Presence and absence theory, 230 ff.
_Primula_, 243
Proteins, specific reactions of, 54 ff.; and species specificity, 68; and evolution, 70, 348
_Protenor_, 200 ff., 208
_Proteus_, 325 ff.
Przibram, H., 176
Pure lines, 333, 334
_Pycnopodia spuria_, 74
_Pyrrhocoris_, 198
Radiation pressure, rôle in transmission of spores through interstellar space, 34 ff.
_Rana, esculenta_, 46; _palustris_, 46; _virescens_, 46
Rate of segmentation, a non-Mendelian hereditary character, 246
Rau, 366
Reaction, tropistic, 11 ff., 92 ff., 147, 178, 187, 255 ff.; precipitin, 54 ff.; anaphylaxis, 61 ff.
Regeneration, 9 ff., 153 ff.; in plants, 160 ff.; in _Bryophyllum_, 161-167; in animals, 167 ff.; in _Tubularia_, 167-170; in _Cerianthus_, 171 ff.; in Planarians, 173-176; in _Alpheus_, 176; and autolysis, 178-181; of lens, 182, 183; external influences on, 192 ff.; of gonads in hermaphrodites, 219
Regulation, 139, 140, 141; in regeneration, _see_ Regeneration.
Reichert, E. T., 64 ff.
_Reseda_, 90
Resistance of spores, 36; seeds, 36 ff.
Reversibility of development, in _Campanularia_, 178 ff.; in Ascidians, 180; in egg, 189 ff.; in _Antennularia_, 194
_Rhabdonema nigrovenosum_, 213
Richet, C., 61
Richter, 34
Ringer solution, 99
Robertson, T. B., 28 ff., 62 ff., 104, 311
Roentgen rays, 45
Roscoe, _see_ Bunsen
Rotifers, determination of sexual cycle by food, 224
Roux, W., 141 ff.
_Saccharomyces_, 36; _cerevisiæ_, 60
_Sacculina_, 216 ff.
Sachs, 88
v. Sachs, J., 145, 154 ff., 159, 161, 184
_Salamandra maculosa_, 339
Salkowski, 352
Salts required for life, 306 ff.
Sansum, W. D., 64
_Schizophyceæ_, 21
Schleip, W., 213
Schoenbein, 358
Schottelius, 334, 337
Schroeder, 14, 33
Schultze, O., 141
Schütze, 55
Schwann, 33
Schwarzschild, 34
Secretions, internal, 145, 155, 157
Self-digestion, 350 ff.
Self-sterility, 89 ff.
Senescence, 367
_Sequoia_, 31, 368
Setchell, W. A., 165, 287
Sex, of parthenogenetic frogs, 125; of twins, 211
Sex chromosome, 199 ff.
Sex determination, cytological basis of, 198 ff.; physiological basis of, 214 ff.
Sexual characters, 198 ff.
Shibata, 93
Shull, A. F., 214, 224
_Sicyonia_, 193
Side-chain theory, 88, 188
Smith, Geoffrey, 159, 217
Smith, Graham, 58
Spain, K. C., 188
Spallanzani, 33
Species, chemical basis of, 40 ff.; specificity of, 41 ff.; incompatibility of, not closely related, 44 ff.
Species specificity, determined by proteins, 63, 68, 348; apparently not by nucleins, 69
Specificity, of grafted tissues, 47; of spermatozoa, 48; of blood sera, 53 ff.; in fertilization, 71 ff.; of activation of sperm by eggs, 80 ff.
_Spelerpes_, 320
Spermatozoa, fertilization of eggs by, 72 ff.; activation by eggs of, 80 ff.; agglutination of, 82 ff.; cluster formation of, 83; chemotropism of, 92 ff.; cultivating of, 126 ff.; chromosomes of, 198 ff.
_Spirographis_, 260
_Spondylomorum_, 277
Spontaneous generation, 33, 38
Spooner, G. B., 134
Standfuss, 303
_Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus_, 36
Steffenhagen, K., 55
Steinach, E., 225 ff., 254, 343
Stereotropism, 178, 187, 283
Stevens, Miss, 68, 199
Stimulus, 196
Stockard, 322, 340
Strassburger, 260
Streaming as means of egg differentiation, 145, 146
_Strongylocentrotus franciscanus_, 50, 52, 75, 81 ff., 103, 247
_Strongylocentrotus lividus_, 129
_Strongylocentrotus purpuratus_, 52, 73 ff., 81 ff., 94, 98 ff., 103, 108, 109, 111 ff., 137, 191, 246 ff., 293 ff., 364; larvæ of, 49 ff.
Sturtevant, A. H., 229 ff.
Styela, 146
Sulphur bacteria, 19 ff.
Supergenes, 5, 9, 136, 319
Sutton, W. S., 68, 233 ff.
Synthesis of living matter, by micro-organisms, 15 ff.; by enzymes, 24 ff.
Synthetic action of enzymes, 23 ff., 38
_Tænia_, 212
Talbot, 262
Tammann, 291
Tanaka, 243
Taylor, A. E., 27, 69 ff.
Tchistowitch, 54 ff.
Teleost fish, crosses of, 6 ff., 345
Temperature, effect on heliotropism, 280; upper limit for organisms, 287 ff.; effect on life, 288 ff.; on butterflies, 303 ff.; adaptation to, 334 ff.
Temperature coefficient, 290 ff., 305; for enzyme, 291; for development, 292 ff.; for oxidations, 295; and fluctuating variation, 296 ff.; for heart-beat, 300 ff.; for duration of life, 366
Thatcher, Miss, 181
Thyroid inducing metamorphosis in tadpoles, 155, 156
Tichomiroff, 95
Tissue culture of spermatozoa, 127
Tissues, transplantation of, 30 ff., 44 ff.; cultivation of, 31 ff.; specificity of, 44 ff.
Torrey, H. B., 264, 269
Tower, 348
Transfusion of blood, 53
Transplantation, of tissues, 30 ff., 44 ff.; of cancers, 45; of anlagen, 148; of eye of salamander, 157; of testes, 226; of ovaries, 227
Traube, 28
Treub, 21
Trial and error, 268, 270
_Trifolium arvense_, 37
Tropisms, 11 ff., 92 ff., 147, 178, 187, 253 ff.; and instincts, 253; theory of, 257 ff.
Tropisms, in embryonic development, 147; of cave animals, 324
Trypanosomes, 332 ff.
Trypsin, synthetic action of, 27
_Tuber brumale_, 60
_Tubularia crocea_, 171
_Tubularia mesembryanthemum_, 167, 169, 192
Twins, origin of, 136 ff.; sex of, 211
Tyndall, 33
_Typhlogobius_, 320
_Typhlomolge_, 320
_Typhlotriton_, 320, 323
Tyrosinase, 249, 250
Tyrosine, 249, 250
v. Uexküll, J., 4 ff., 128, 139
Uhlenhuth, E., 157, 183, 187
Uhlenhuth, P., 55, 58, 66, 322
Underhill, F. P., 23
_Vanessa, prorsa_, 303; _levana_, 303
Vaney, 217
Van Slyke, D. D., 22, 24, 291
van’t Hoff, 24 ff., 290, 292, 296
Variation, 6, 297 ff., 346-348
Vitzou, 159
_Volvox_, 280
Walcott, 42, 61
Warburg, O., 117 ff.
Warming, 41
Wasps, polymorphism in, 222-224; sex determination, 255 ff.
Wassermann, 55
Wasteneys, H., 29, 82, 87, 112, 113, 117, 191, 277, 293, 295, 335, 364
Weiggert, 188
Weismann, 7, 30, 303
Wells, H. G., 62, 69
Welsh, D. A., 60
Werner, F., 340
Wheeler, W. M., 43
White, J., 36
Whitney, D. D., 224
Wilson, E. B., 68, 143, 199 ff.
Winkler, 47
Winogradsky, S., 16 ff., 42
Wolf, G., 182, 187
Yeast cells, cultivation of, 15 ff.
Young, 16, 358
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In this work, which was crowned by the Academy, the author considers a subject, the solution of which offers more enticement to the well-wisher of the race than the gold of the Incas did to the treasure-seekers of Spain, who themselves doubtless looked upon the coveted yellow metal, however mistakenly, as a key to the happiness which all are trying to find. “Amid the noisy tumult of life, amid the dissonance that divides man from man,” remarks M. Finot, “the Science of Happiness tries to discover the divine link which binds humanity to happiness through the soul and through the union of souls.” The author considers the nature of happiness and the means of its attainment, as well as many allied questions.
=33.=--=Genetic Theory of Reality.= Being the Outcome of Genetic Logic as Issuing in the Æsthetic Theory of Reality Called Pancalism. By JAMES MARK BALDWIN, Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D., Foreign Correspondent of the Institute of France, Author of “History of Psychology,” etc.
The author here states the general results of the extended studies in genetic and social science and anthropology made by him and others, and gives a critical account of the history of the interpretation of nature and man, both racial and philosophical.
The book offers an _Introduction to Philosophy_ from a new point of view. It contains, also, a valuable glossary of the terms employed in these and similar discussions.
=34.=--=Mosquito Control in Panama.= The Eradication of Malaria and Yellow Fever in Cuba and Panama. By J. A. LE PRINCE, C.E., A. M., Chief Sanitary Inspector, Isthmian Canal Commission, 1904-1914, and A. J. ORENSTEIN, M.D., Assistant Chief Sanitary Inspector, Isthmian Canal Commission. With an introduction by L. O. HOWARD, Ph.D., Entomologist and Chief, Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. 8^o. 95 illustrations.
Mr. Le Prince’s books will be not only of great practical importance as a guide to future work of the same character, especially in the Tropics, but also of permanent historic value.
=35.=--=The Organism as a Whole.= From a Physico-Chemical Viewpoint. By JACQUES LOEB, Author of “Comparative Physiology of the Brain.” 8^o.
The author accounts for the harmonious character of the organism on a purely physico-chemical basis, without the assumption of design on the one hand, and without the formulation of too definite a theory of evolution on the other. The book contains, in addition to the text, all the necessary illustrations.
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Transcriber's note:
Footnotes have been repositioned to below the paragraph of reference or below the relevant block quote.
A small number of spelling anomalies were noted and these have mostly been corrected, but a few that possibly represent authentic contemporary alternatives have been left unchanged – see below.
Corrections:
spermatozoon-->spermatozoön i.e.-->i. e. e.g.-->e. g. nermaphrodite-->hermaphrodite suceeded-->succeeded ôf-->of tryosinase-->tyrosinase in-as-much-->inasmuch ultra-violet-->ultraviolet view-point-->viewpoint Fredericq-->Frédéricq Korösy-->Körösy Sitzngsber-->Sitzungsber negaceros-->megaceros
Variants:
clew/clue Entswcklngsmech/Entwcklngsmech/Entwicklngsmech peroxidase/peroxydase (latter spelling in quoted text.) 20°C/20° C (spaced and unspaced temperature specifications) 8vo/8^o