SUBJECT INDEX 



Photochemical inactivation spectra, 

 mirror image of emission spectra, 

 114 



Photochemical reactions 



energy relations in, 244-255 

 maximum eflBciency of, 244-255 



Photocytes, 299, 304, 308-310, 313, 

 321, 324, 328 



Photophores, 4, 14, 306, 307, 315, 

 316, 327, 353, 356, 370-374 



Photosynthesis 



delayed light production, 47-50 

 induction period, 71 

 quantum efficiency, 38 



Phthallocyanines, singlet-triplet split, 

 35 



Phycobilins, in red algae, 68-72 



Phycocyanine, fluorescence spectra, 

 68-72 



Phycoerythrin 



absorption spectrum, 56 

 fluorescence spectra, 56, 68—72 



Pigments, photosynthetic, energy 

 transfer between, 51-52 



Pisces, 367-374 



Pituitrin, 306, 321 



"Plankton snow," 346 



Platyuridae, 364 



Polarography, of firefly luciferin, 203 



Polychaeta, 3, 9, 17, 347-348, 365 



Polymixin, 132 



Polynoinae, 17 



Polysporaceae, 342 



Polyzoa, 3 



Ponape, 340, 342, 344, 360 



Porifera, 16 



Pork, 337 



Porphyrin, chemiluminescence of, 9 



Porphyrin, singlet-triplet split, 34 



Port Jackson, Australia, 398 



Potential energy, of ethylenic mole- 

 cules, 40 



Pressure optima, 278-279 



Pressure-temperature relations, of 

 bact. luminescence in vitro, 

 284-292; muscle tension, 273 



Prosobranchia, 17 



Prosobranchiata, 3, 351 



449 



Protochlorophyll, 61 



absorption maximum, 64 

 fluorescence spectrum, 63-66 

 in squash seed coat, 64, 65 



Protozoa, 11, 12, 300 



Provoringo, 363 



Pseudoflash, 330, 331 



Pteridins, 131, 200 



Pteropoda, 3 



Ptychoderidae, 366 



Pulmonata, 17 



Purple bacteria, 51, 52 



Pyrophosphatase, 175-177, 186-195 



Pyrophosphate, role in firefly lumi- 

 nescence, 186-195 



Quantum yield 



in luminol luminescence, 85 

 intrinsic, 29 



Quenching 



by paramagnetic molecules, 37 

 collisional bimolecular, 30 

 of chemiluminescence, 76 

 of luciferin fluorescence, 148 

 of luminescence, by light, 9, 10, 

 16-21, 111-114, 309-310, 

 325, 371, 416-419 

 temperature dependence, 83-86 



Rabaul, 339, 341, 361-363 



Radiolaria, 12, 16 



Raffles Museum, 335, 350 



Rat brain, 281 



Receptors, for luminescence, 306 



Redox potential, of FMNH2, 241 



"Red Water" 



prerequisites, 400-409, 414 



survey of occurrences, 398-399 

 Regulation of luminescence, see Con- 

 trol, physiological 

 Repetitive flashes, 302, 305, 310, 



314, 320, 323 

 Respiration 



of bacterial extracts, 224, 225 

 effects of aldehydes, 224, 225 



relation to luminescence, 223 

 Rhagophthalmidae, 19 

 Rhio Archipelago, 350 



