INDEX 
Note.—References give the number of the page on which the matter referred to 
begins. 
Acid, 23; production i in eggs, 41; 
in muscle, 41; in nerves, 25. 
Action current, 13. 
Aérobic tissue, 15. 
Afferent fiber, 58. 
Air, pure, 23. 
Algae, red, 92. 
Alkali, Greenbank, 114. 
Anaérobic tissue, 15. 
Anesthesia: partial, on local exci- 
tability, 58; on conductivity, 
58. See also Carbon dioxide 
production. 
Anesthetics, 25, 61; on refractory 
period, 48. On carbon dioxide 
production see Carbon dioxide. 
See also Ether, Urethane, 
Chloral hydrate. 
Animal heat: discovery of nature 
of, 11; source of, 11, 51. 
Apparatus, for carbon dioxide 
determination. See Biometer; 
Apparatus III. 
Apparatus III, 129; description, 
1303 diagram, 131; method, 
130. 
Arachnid, 80. 
Arbacia, 41. 
Asphyxiation: on refractory 
period, 48; as cause of anes- 
thesia, 60. 
Astacus, 30. 
Atmospheric oxygen. See Oxygen. 
Automatic ganglion. See Gan- 
glion. 
Axis cylinder, 50, 51. 
Bacterial decomposition, 27, 28. 
Banana fly, 110. 
137 
Barium carbonate: detection of, 
III; precipitation of, 16, 19; 
solubility of, 15; stages of 
granulation of, diagrams, 123. 
Barium hydroxide, 15, 19, 20, 89, 
94, I10, 114, 115, 118, 121, 130, 
133. 
Bayliss, 29, 33, 45, note 1, 18. 
Bicycle, compared to life-process, 
107. 
Biometer, 6, 15, 17, 1g; accuracy 
of, 135; bubbles in, 123; cal- 
culating results, 127, 128; cali- 
brating volume "of, 118; carbon 
dioxide, free air for, 116; clean- 
ing of, 115; description ‘of, III; 
diagram of, 113; photograph of, 
17, 112; principles of, 110; 
qualitative use of, 120; quanti- 
tative use of, 123; quick quanti- 
tative comparison with, 122; 
sensitiveness of, 111; setting 
up, 114; testing purity of air 
in, 117; uses of, 109. 
Blaze current, 5, 88, tor. 
also Electrical signs of life. 
Blood supply, 16. 
Brain, 16, 59; increased metab- 
olism in, 36; ring, 76. 
Brown, Horace, 87. 
Burch, 47. 
See 
Cancer, pagurus. Ste Carbon 
dioxide production. 
Carbohydrate, ro. 
Carbon dioxide production: by 
life process, 22; comparison of, 
in nerve and other tissues, 29; 
in different animals: crabs, 
cancer pagurus, 30; crayfish, 
astacus, 30; Crustacea, 30; dog, 
