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Index 



Observation, method of, ii, 278 



Odors of animals and plants, i, 84 



CEdema, ii, 116 



Oil-drops and globules, in eggs, i, 

 213, 215 



Oliver, J. R., ii, 7 



Omnipotence of chromatin in 

 heredity, ii, 14 



One-cell stage of organism's life, 

 i, 214 



Ontogeny, misuse of term, i, 271 ; 

 of protozoa, i, 277; effort to ex- 

 plain on elementalistic princi- 

 ples, ii, 158 



Optic nerve, ii, 164 



Organ, i, 245 



Organ-forming substances, in the 

 ovum, ii, 16; theory of, 141 



Organ-germs, i, 209 



Organelles, i, 248 



Organic formation, and isolated 

 fragments, i, 176 



Organic matter, i, 114 



Organicists, i, 7 



Organ-independence, i, 40 



Organism, as a whole, familiarity 

 of expression, i, 1; definition of, 

 18; distrust of by biologists, 25; 

 and its chemistry, 75; and its 

 protoplasm, 120; and its cells, 

 150; in interpreting the cell, 156; 

 substitution of, for cell, 194; 

 consisting of one cell, 227; fic- 

 tion of structureless, 256; as 

 cause, 276; "organless," 232, 

 320; hypothetical primitive, 319; 

 fundamentally dynamic, ii, 134; 

 "body" and "soul" combined, 

 151; as causal explanation, 199; 

 as cause of chemical transfor- 

 mation, 205; a natural object, 

 207; attributes and acts of, 215; 

 living, 275 ; physico-chemical 

 conception of, and conscious- 

 ness, 324 



Organism-transforming action of 

 thyroid substance, i, 145 



Organismal theory, i, 2, 280; con- 

 structive side of discussion of, 

 ii, 91; and C. M. Child's results, 

 111; and elementalist stand- 

 point, 148; in relation to trop- 



isms, 188; of consciousness, 282 



Organismalism, i, 2; and correla- 

 tion, 17; remarks on the term, 

 28 



Organismalist, ii, 149 



Organization, law of eml)ryonic 

 development, i, 14; of infusoria, 

 282; of chromosomes, ii, 28; 

 physical, and instinct, 310; and 

 emotion, 316 



Organizing power of living beings, 

 i, 211 



"Organless organisms," i, 232, 320 



Organogenesis, i, 325 



Organoids, i, 248 



Organs, fallacious teachings about, 

 i, 242; rudimentary, 277; "can 

 belong only to multicellular or- 

 ganisms," 281 



Origin of species, i, 4 



Osborn, H. F., i, 320 



Outer layer, universality in or- 

 ganisms, i, 301 



Ovum, i, 210; as entity and as 

 germinal entity, ii, 15 



Oxidation, in animal body, i, 340; 

 ii, 346 



Oxygen, "doscarecious" powers of, 

 ii, 204; in relation to conscious- 

 ness, 290 et seq.; as respiratory 

 substance, 301 ; latent attribute 

 of, 341 ; hereditary, ontogenic 

 and individual, 347; "activation" 

 of, 348 



Pacific Ocean, iournev of fur 

 seals in, ii, 211 



Pain, ii, 183 



Pairing, promiscuity in, ii, 267 



Paleobotanists, ii, 58 



Paleontologists, i, 322 



Palms, ii, 299 



Pancreas and pancreatic juice, ii, 

 120 



Pangens of Darwin, i, 19 



Parallelism, psycho-physical, irre- 

 solvable inconsistency of, with 

 organismal standpoint, ii, 150, 

 220; historical basis of, 297 



Paramecium, i, 326; ii, 253 



Paratoid gland, of toad, i, 111 



Parthenogenetic eggs, i, 351 



