SUBJECT INDEX 



Abies, 30 



Acanthis, 103, 117 

 Adonis, 29 



Aelosoma, 118, 119, 120 

 Alkanna, 29 

 Amoeba, 116 

 Amomum, 29 

 Andropogon, 29 

 Anethion, 30 

 Apium, 30 

 Arenicola, 118 

 Asarium. 29 

 Aspergillus, 93 

 Asymmetric analysis, 99 



induction, 37 



state, transmission of, 35, 37 



synthesis, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 

 43, 45 

 Asymmetry, and cancer, 129 



as a criterion of organic origin, 

 31 



as a specific property of pro- 

 toplasm, 20 



definition, 10 



of primary constituents, 21 



optical and geometrical, 11 



origin of, 52, 53 



Bacillus, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 



88, 89, 91, 93, 95, 96 

 Bacterium, 62, 67, 68, 71 

 Balanus, 115 

 Barbados, 29 

 Bar asm a. 30 

 Biological series of isomers, 15, 17, 



31 

 Blumea, 29 



Canarium, 30 



Caruvi, 30 



Chaetogaster, 118, 119 



Citrus, 30 



Cladonema, 118 



Clostridiuvi, 64 



Correction, in maintaining optical 



purity, 45, 50 

 C rot on, 8 

 Cyclops, 118 



Dahlia, 22, 23 



Dalyellia, 118 



Daphnia. 118 



Dextral and sinistral strains, physi- 

 ology of, 84, 89 



Differential effect of optic isomers, 

 99, 120 



Dissymmetric substances, produc- 

 tion from symmetric, 67 



Dissymmetry, and configuration of 

 organic molecules, 14 



and life, 19 



and optical activity, 12 



definition, 9 



in organic nature, 19 



in quartz, 13 



morphological, 79 



the loss of, 74 

 Drosophila, 118 

 Dryobalanops, 29 



Erigeron, 30 



Eucalyptus, 30 



Euchlanis, 118 



Euplotes, 118 



Evasion, in maintaining optical 



purity, 45 

 Foeniculum, 30 

 Fraxinns, 25 

 Fruticicola, 83, 84, 89, 90, 91, 93, 



96 

 Fundulus, 115 



Gammarus, 118 



Genes, optical inversion of, 81 



Helobdella, 118, 119 

 Hydra, 116, 118 



Inversion, morphological, 79 

 morphological and optical, rela- 

 tion of. 91 

 optical, 15, 59, 61 



Juniperus, 30 



Ketonaldehydemutases, 67 



Lacerta, 103, 117 

 Lactobacillus, 62, 65, 66, 68 

 Laurus, 26, 29, 30 



155 



