Subject Index 457 



Malignant growth: see Neoplasms 

 Malonate, iiSl 

 Mammals, 54, 376, 379 

 Mammary gland carcinoma; see 



Carcinoma 

 Max haiitia pohinorpJia. 117, 118. 119 



diploid gamctophytes induced, 117 

 Marigold, 326 

 Marine annelid, 75 



Chaetopterus, pergainentiireiis, 75-77, 

 82 

 Marine eggs, 87 

 Mast cells, 188 

 Materia medica, 1,11, 140 

 Maturation division, 75 

 Mechanism of colchicine-mitosis, 391- 



422 

 Medicago, species of: denticulata, 332; 

 lupuHna, 322: media. 322; sativa, 

 322 

 Medical practitioners 



Arabian. 3 



Babylonian, 2 



British, 13-14 



Egyptian, 1 



French. 13 



German, 13 



Greek, 2. (w 



Hindu, 2-11 



medieval, 13 

 Medicine, 3 



early, 11-14 



forensic, 176-94 

 MegacarvcKAtes, 189. 192 

 Megaloblasts, embryonic, 210 



in Addison-Biermer anemia, 210, 21 1 

 Megaspore mother cells, 110, 386 



of embr\o sac, 1 IS 



in gametoph\ tes, 110-18 



in Tradescautia, 118 

 Meiosis, 94, 103; see also C-meiosis 



chiasmata of, 115 



colchicine, 110-18 



compared to c-mitosis, 112 



in pollen mother cells. 111 



treatment and stage, 113, 111 

 Meiotic metaphase. 386 

 Melandrium dioecum, \ar. album. 353 

 Mclaiiophis. diljercntialis, 11 , 90 

 .Mcl.inthoideae, 8 

 Mclica, 302 



Melittia satyriniforinis Hubner, 31 1 

 Mercury, action of, on mitosis. 415 

 Merendera persica, 2, 3, 7 

 Merostathmokinesis, 86, 400 

 Mescaline, 405 

 Metabolic changes 



actions of colchicine, 396 



Benedict s solution. 131, 132 



diastatic activity, 131 



dipeptidases, 132 



enzyme reaction. 131 



growth, 132 



metabolic inhibitors, 181 

 oxygen uptake, 132 

 plasmolysis, 132 

 rates, 131 



respiration changes, 132 

 \iscosity correlation, 132 

 ?n vitro, 131 

 Metabolism 



of colchicine, 194-96 

 of tumors, 260 

 Metals, 412 

 -Metamorphosis, 210 

 Metaphase 

 arrested, 17, 40, 66, 81 

 anaphase fewer than, 65 

 Arbacia. spindle of, 75 

 ball, 38 

 bi-, 83 



colchicine-, 35-50 



colchicine causing arrest at, 24, 25, 26 

 chromosomes nnoriented at, 30, 31 

 Cliaetopterus, spindle of, 15-11 

 clumped, 42, 84 

 correlated with concentration of 



colchicine, 76 

 disappearance of spindle, 76 

 distorted star, 38 

 distributed colchicine. 43 

 exploded, 38, 40-42 



in Allium, 25, 41, 79, 85 



in liver of rats, 44 



in neuroblasts of grasshopper, 



41, 66, 70 

 in Orthoptero. 41 

 in pollen tubes, 37 

 in Siredon, 41 

 in Triton, 41 

 in Tri turns. 43 

 graphic representation of increase in. 



30 

 main types of arrested, 38, 70 

 multiple star, 41. 66 

 original statements of arrested, 26-29 

 oriented arrested, 39-42 

 percentages of, in root tips of onion, 34 

 Pernice's observations, 17. 18. 65 

 photomicrographs of. 37 

 prophase, 84 



stages of, in animal cells. 19 

 spindle mechanisms and arrested, 



81-86 

 star, 81-83 

 tissue culture malignant cells 



arrested, 17 

 tissue culture, normal cells, 17 

 tri-, 83 



unoriented, 10 

 Metastases, treated by colchicine, 263 

 L-Methioninc, 397 

 Methowthclidonine. 413 

 Methyl ciIict, 169, 408 



