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SUBJECT INDEX 



Vertebrata cold blooded, 5, 44, 63 

 and kinetic hormones, 82, 122, 



124, 144, 149, 155 

 and metabolism, 173, 193, 253 



Vertebrata, lower, 45, 47, 74, 110, 

 127 



Visceral arches, 48, 49 



Visceral muscles, 57ff". 



Visceral nervous system, 30 



Vitamin D, 246 



Viviparous development, 151 



W {see Melanophore concentrating 



hormone) 

 Water, antidiuresis, 228ff., 238 

 balance, 8, 10, 143, 168, 206, 208, 

 214, 219ff., 220, 232, 239 

 "Water-balance principle", 230 

 Water, diuresis, 143, 201, 207, 208, 

 214, 219ff., 223, 224, 225ff., 

 240, 257 

 excretion, 222, 223, 229 

 flux through skin, affected by 



hormone, 233 

 loss, 228, 231 



reabsorption, 230, 234, 235, 236, 

 237 



retention, 223, 246 

 uptake, 220fF., 223, 224, 226, 228, 

 230ff., 231, 239 

 Water-loaded, rats, 227, 228, 229 



tissues of fish, 227 

 Weismann's ring (gland), in Dip- 

 tera, 135, 195 



Xanthophores, bet\^'een 82 and 83, 

 83 



X-organ, confused use of name, 28 

 (see Ganglionic-X-organ and 

 Hanstrom's sensory-pore or- 

 gan) 



Y-organ in Crustacea, 8, 18, 38 

 and metabolic hormones, 190, 



199,203,204,222,240,241, 



242ff., 249, 251 

 endocrinokinetic control of, 133, 



134ff., 254, 258 

 extract of, 242 



Zona fasciculata, 53 



