Contents 



Introduction ix 



The Critical Complex Theory of Biogenesis, Henry Eyring and 



Frank H. Johnson 1 



Structural Factors Involved in Protein Stability, W. 



Kauzmann 9 



Effects of Temperature, Dielectric Constant and Diffusion 



Rates on Formation of Intermediate Compound of Cata- 



LASE AND Hydrogen Peroxide, Eugene Ackerman, Greenville 



Kash Strother and Robert Lewis Berger 25 



Methods for Determination of Efffect of Temperature Upon 



Velocity Constants of Enzyme Reactions, Britton Chance 37 



Temperature Dependence of Cholinesterase Activity, Leigh E. 



Chadwick 45 



Mechanism of 'Heat Activation' of Enzymes, Morton N. Swartz, 



Nathan 0. Kaplan and Mary E. Freeh 61 



Myosin ATP-ase Activity in Relation to Temperature and 



Pressure, Karl F. Guthe 71 



Temperature-Pressure Relation in Muscular Contraction, 



Dugald E. S. Brown 83 



Temperature-Pressure Studies on the Role of Sol-Gel Reac- 

 tions in Cell Division, Douglas Marsland HI 

 Synchronization of Cell Division by Changes in Temperature, 



Victor G. Bruce 127 



Temperature Alterations of Response of Cell Division to 



Urethan, Ivor Cornman 137 



Cumulative Effects of Optimum and Suboptimum Temperatures 



ON Insect Development, A. Glenn Richards 145 



Some Theoretical Aspects of Effects of Temperature on 



Plants, F. W. Went 163 



Modification by Low Temperature of Certain Ion Responses 



OF Bullfrog Nerve Fibers, Frederick Crescitelli 175 



"^ Influence of Changes in Temperature and Pressure on the 



Nerve Fiber, Ichiji Tasaki and Constantine S. Spyropoulos 201 



Effect of Temperature on Visual Processes, V. J. Wulff 221 



Influence of Temperature Upon Resistance to Asphyxia, 



James A . Miller, Jr. 229 



Effect of Low Body Temperatures on Respiratory Gas Ex- 

 change IN THE Anesthetized Dog, Arthur B. Otis 259 

 Index 267 



