INDEX 



Absorption 26 



Acclimation 88 



Accommodation of giant fibres 



153 

 Acetylcholine 90, 97, 121, 136, 



150, 154, 155, 156 

 Acid-base relations 26, 28-30, 35, 



103 

 Acidity, responses to 179, 180 

 Acid phosphatase 56, 62, 110 

 Action potentials 161, 166 

 Active uptake of chloride 72 

 Adrenaline 90, 97, 121, 136, 156, 



157 

 Aeolosoma 6 

 Aerobic metabolism 110 

 Aestivation 81-82, 131 

 After-discharge 148, 149 

 Albumen 8 



Alkaline denaturation of haemo- 

 globin 106 

 Alkaline phosphatase 31, 33, 57, 



123 

 Allantoic acid 47 

 Allantoin 47, 49 

 AUolohophora chlorotica 3, 66, 71, 



80 

 Allolobophora longa 2, 3, 11, 19, 



20, 22, 50, 51, 57, 71, 73, 81, 



82, 102, 103, 108, 121, 122, 



129, 131, 149, 180 

 Alma einini 85 

 Amines 5 

 Amine oxidase 157 

 Amino acids 5, 61 

 Ammonia 46, 48, 49, 52, 53-68 

 Amoebocytes 98 

 Amylase 20, 22 

 Anaerobic metabolism 109, 123 



Arginase 54, 55, 62 

 Arginine phosphate 1 

 Ash content 4 

 ATP 16, 116 

 Axial field 36-44 



Behaviour 171-183 



development of CNS 172 



Bimastus eisenii 22 



Blood system 96-98 

 blood pressure 65 

 effect of drugs on 97 

 effect of temperature 97 

 flow to calciferous gland 32 



Body wall, sensitivity to drugs 

 150 



Bohr efTect 85, 103 



Branchiobdellidae 19 



Branchiodrilus 84 



Carbohydrates 4 



Carbon" dioxide 29, 30, 38, 95, 



180 

 Carbon monoxide 100, 108 

 Carbonic anhydrase 29, 30 

 Calciferous glands 20, 24-35, 123 

 Calcium 2 

 Calcium carbonate 24, 25, 31, 32, 



33, 34, 51 

 Cellulase 21, 22 



Cerebral ganglion 129, 130-133 

 Chaetae 15, 144 

 Chemical composition 3 

 Chemoreception 166, 167, 173, 



177 

 Chitinase 21, 22 



202 



