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INDEX 



Gokhale, G. K., 224 



Growth, automatic record of, 154 



effect of carbonic acid on, 175 



effect of light on, 176 



effect of minute and large doses 

 of poison on, 157 



effect of stimulus on, 182 



effect of touch on, 155 



effect of wireless stimulus on, 179 



effect of wounds on, 149 



pulsation in, 155 



rejuvenescence and renewal of, 

 136 



HALL, President Stanley, 148 



Harper, Professor, 137 



Hartley, Dr., 83 



Harvard University, lecture at, 148 



Heliotropism, explanation of, 186 



positive and negative, 166 

 Hertz, 52 

 Howes, Professor, 103, 105 



INORGANIC matter, electric response 



of, 89 

 electric response of, effect of 



fatigue on, 93 

 electric response of, effect of 



minute and large doses of 



' poison ' on, 96 

 electric response of, effect of 



stimulant on, 94 



KARNA, 17, 256 

 Kelvin, Lord, 40, 61, 67 



LAFONT, Father, 23 



Latent period, determination of, in 



plants, 212 

 Light, continuity of effect of, and 



electric radiation, 79 

 Lighthouse, electro-magnetic, 63 

 Linnean Society, 103 

 Lipmann, 64 



'MAHABHARATA/ the, 16 

 Medicine, Royal Society of, 147 

 Memory, impression on metal, 208 



revival of, 208 

 Molecular disposition, effect of, on 



nervous impulse, 215 

 Molecular strain, theory of, 79, 80 



in solution of metallic nitrates, 83 

 Montagu, E. S., 248 



Mother, determining influence of, 



25, 37 



Multiple response, 134 

 Miinsterberg, 211 



NALANDA, ruins of, 119 



Nation, The, 146 



Nature, 252 



Nervous impulse, control of, 213, 



214, 215 



dual character of, 171 

 ' Nervous ' impulse in plants, 212 

 New York, lecture at, 148 

 Nivedita, the Sister, 221 

 Nyctitropism, 193 

 Nymphaea, night-watch of, 195 



OPTICAL Lever, the, 129 

 Oxford, lecture at, 145, 251 



PARIS, International Congress of, 88 



Pfeffer, 160, 167 



Photographic action, strain theory 



of, 80 



throughout entire spectrum, 81 

 Photography, fading of latent 



image, 81 

 without light, 83 

 Phototropism. See Heliotropism 

 Physique, Societe de, Paris, elected 



honorary member of, 64 

 Plant response, abolition of, at 



death, 151 

 automatism and continuity with 



multiple, 134 

 death spasm in, 133 

 electric spasm in, 133 

 effect of carbonic acid on, 148 

 effect of chloroform on, 148 

 effect of cloud on, 148 

 effect of fatigue on, 132 

 effect of sulphuretted hydrogen 



on, 148 



effect of wounds on, 149 

 Plants, sensitiveness of, 172 



sleep and waking movements in, 



195, 198 



' true ' sleep of, 203 

 Poincare, M., 57 

 ' Praying ' Palm, the, 198 

 Presidency College, Calcutta, 33, 

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QUINCKE, Professor, 65 



