INDEX 



339 



mode of appearance in pellicle, 231 ; 

 matrices of, 231 

 Kreatinin, 64 



Lamarckian theory, 120, 127, 130 



Latent germs in fruits denied, 181 



Latent vitality of germs, 167, 168, 171 



Law of continuity, 138, 303, 305, 314 ; of 

 heredity, 93 ; of parsimony, 54 



Lemna (sae Duckweed) 



Leprosy, 327-330 ; eating putrid fish, as 

 cause of, 329 ; its low contagiousness, 

 328 ; its de novo origin, 328 



Leptothrix, 55, 56 



Lichen, organisms found in, 247 



Life, definitions of, 22 ; fallacy concern- 

 ing, 23 ; forms of, primordial, 145 ; in 

 all things, 21 ; in other worlds, 314 ; in 

 the universe, 314 ; many lower forms 

 of, convertible, 228 ; doctrine of deter- 

 minants opposed thereto, 229 ; that of 

 organic polarity favourable, 229 ; com- 

 parable with convertibility of crys- 

 talline forms, 229 ; matter of, 60 ; not 

 an entity, 21 ; of plants, 25 ; physical 

 basis of, 59, 71 



Life-processes, simplest, 71 



Light, influence of, on movements of 

 lower organisms, 31 



Liver, healthy. Bacteria in, 167 



Living bodies, properties of, 21 ; depen- 

 dent upon molecular constitution, 22 



Living matter, fission of, 39 ; molecular 

 changes in, 96 ; properties of, 73 ; 

 synthesis of, 17, 18, 141 ; thermal 

 death-point of, 147 



Living particles, appearing in fluids, 51 ; 

 resulting from Archebiosis, 144 



Living things, lowest, 25 ; properties of, 

 30 



Living units, fission of, 38 ; movements 

 of, 30 ; influenced by oxygen, light, and 

 food-stuffs, 30-33 ; properties of, 30 



Lower animals, death in, 24 ; rate of 

 change in, 290, 312 



Lower organisms, symmetry of, 100; 

 rate of change in, 290,312 ; variability 

 of, differs much, 293 



Lowest forms of life now existing, how 

 explicable in accordance with doctrine 

 of evolution, 97 



Lowest living things, 25, 30 



Macrobiotus, 251, 257 



Magnetism, 22 



Maize, tall, 105 



Malphigian tubules, 259 



Man, descent of, 308, 309 



Matrices of Ciliates, primary, 231, 234 



Matter, living, synthesis of, 17, 18 



Memory, good, inheritance of, 128 



Merogonie, 85 



Merotomy, 40, 84 



Metabolism, 108 



Metamorphosis, germinal, 109 



Micellae, 75 



Micrococci, 55 



Microorganisms, common and patho- 

 genic, 316 ; different, from healthy 

 urine, 154 ; invisible germs of, S3 



Milk, flask experiments with, 152 



Modes of death, 23 



Modified crystals, 50 



Mohammedan children, memory of, 129 



Molecular changes in living matter, 96 ; 

 complexity, degrees of, 63 ; composi- 

 tion and properties, 62 ; disturbance 

 from nucleus, 41 



Molecules, constancy of character of, 139; 

 of all degrees of complexity, 286 ; 

 proteid, great size of, 65 



Monads and Fungus-germs, relations of, 

 191 



Monads and Peranemata, from encysted 

 Stylonychise, 221-224 



Monads, origin of from discrete cor- 

 puscles, 193 



Monads, origin of from Zooglcea masses, 

 i8g 



Monera, 26 



Morphine, formula of, 64 



Moss-rose, origin of, 107 



Mould, 56 ; in cells of apple, 177 ; in 

 centre of orange, 179 ; reproductive 

 units of, 59 



Movements of living units, 30-33 



Muscle, contractility of, 11 



Mutable states of plants, 112 



Mutation, 135 ; and Heterogenesis, rela- 

 tions of, 112 ; in plants and animals, 

 301 ; theory, 102, 104, no, in 



Myeline and cell-like forms, 42 



