_B. coli communis_, 36; _typhosus_, 36; _fluorescens_, 334

Bacteria, growth of, 15 ff., 29, 71 ff.; specificity in, 41 ff.

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Balanced salt solutions, 307-317; theory of, 317; and adaptation, 331 ff.

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Bancroft, F. W., 70, 125, 127, 264, 269 ff.

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Bernard, Claude, 2 ff., 26, 159, 350, 354, 355, 358

Blood relationship, established by transfusion, 53, 54 ff.; precipitin reaction, 55 ff.; anaphylaxis reaction, 61 ff.; hemoglobin crystals, 64 ff.

Blood serum, precipitin reaction of, 54 ff.; effect of, on unfertilized eggs, 101 ff., 124

Blowfly, heliotropism of larvæ of, 265 ff.

Boveri, Th., 8, 126, 128 ff., 134, 138 ff., 150 ff., 186 ff., 209 ff., 246

_Bryophyllum calycinum_, 153, 160 ff., 177

Bunsen-Roscoe, law of, 11, 256 ff., 261, 263, 264

Cell division, 15, 29, 129 ff.; suppression of, 113 ff.

Cells, nutritive media of, 15 ff; immortality of, 30 ff.; migrating, 44; mesenchyme, 51 ff., 130 ff., 147, 155 ff.

_Cerianthus membranaceus_, 171 ff., 188, 361

Chromosomes, rôle of, in sex determination, 198 ff.; theory of Mendelian heredity, 233

Crystals, differences between living organisms and, 14 ff.

Cytoplasm of eggs as future embryo, 8, 9, 70, 126, 151 ff.

_Daphnia_, 210, 262, 279, 280, 282, 306, 312

Death, 349 ff.; natural, cause of, 364, 369

Decidua formation induced by corpus luteum, 157-158

Determination of sex, in bees, 208 ff.; in phylloxerans, 210; in _Bonellia_, 215

Divisibility of living matter, limits of, 148-151

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

Egg, as the future embryo, 8, 9, 70, 126, 151; artificial parthenogenesis of, 95 ff.; organisms from, 128 ff.; determining unity of organism, 151-152; chromosomes 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

Electromotive forces, origin in living organs, 140

Environment, influence of, 286 ff.; temperature, 288 ff., 344 ff.; salinity, 306; adaptation to, 319

_Eudendrium_, 260, 261, 269, 277, 278, 326

Fertilization, heterogeneous, 48 ff., 51, 73 ff.; specificity in, 71 ff.; and oxidation, 117 ff.; and permeability, 119 ff.