目錄
GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE
PREFACE
I'HE ORGANIZATION OF ANIMAL LIFE
PAPERS RELATING TO COMPARATIVE AND SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY AND THE
ORGANIZATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL
Revival of Biological Inquiry
Renaissance of Anatomy
Beginnings of Comparative Anatomy
Beginnings of Modern Ornithology
Birth of Modern Systematic Zoology
Taxonomy Applied to Man
Biological Basis of Comparative Anthropology
Beginnings of Exact Anatometry
Basic Morphological Types
Rise of the Tissue Concept
Naturphilosophie
Meckel on Method in Anatomy
Introduction of the Cell Theory
Establishiment of the Unicellular Condition of the Protozoa
Cellular Basis of Histology
THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ANIMAL ORGANISM
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHYSIOLOGY
Early Gropings toward an Idea of Metabolism
Circulation Postulated
Valves Discovered in the Veins
Proof of Circulation
Thcory of the Circulation
Discovery of Lyinphatic System
Mechanistic Basis of Physiology
Early Studies on Respiration
Direct Observation of Capillary Circulation
Transfusions Accomplished
Interpretation of Kidney Function
First Published Account of Sperm
The Physics of Flight
Early Studies on the Mechanics of Circulation
Reproductive Physiology of Invertebrates
Parthenogenesis Proven
Mechanism in the Eighteenth Century
Solution of Food in the Stomach
Early Experimental Study on Coagulation
Respiratory Interdependence of Animals and Plants
Respiration as Utilization of Oxygen
Animal Electricity
Rise of Modern Physiology of Digestion
Biochemical Nature of Nutrition
Formation of Sugar in the Liver
Analysis of Adrenal Function
Recognition of the Colloid Condition
Life Existing Independently in an "Internal Environment
Physiological Action of a Hormone Demonstrated
Biochemical Definition of Life
Biochemical Character of Dietary Deficiency
THE BASIS OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHYSIOLOGICAL AND GENERAL ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY
Mechanistic Basis of Physiological Psychology
Early Concept of Cerebral Localization
Irritability Recognized and Defined
Recognition of Reflex Action
Beginnings of Modern Theory of Vision and Color Vision
Functions of the Dorsal and Ventral Roots of the Spinal Nerves
Spinal Nerve Roots
Specific Nerve Energies
The Speed of the Nerve Impulse
On the Instincts of Insects
Conditioned Reflexes
THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL
Revival of Descriptive Embryology
Earliest Illustrated Embryological Treatise
Epigenetic Theory of Development
The Quest for the Mammalian Egg
Early Experimental Studies of "Spontaneous Generation
Preformation Theory
Revival of Epigenesis
Early Experimental Study of Regencration
Doctrine of Preformation
Early Opposition to Spontaneous Generation
Materialism, Evolution, and Epigenesis
Embryology and Evolution
Germ Layers as Homologies
Descriptive Embryology Comes of Age
Experimental Analysis of Developmental Mechanics
Totipotency of Blastomeres
The Growth of Isolated Tissue in Vitro
CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Description of Cellss
Protozoa Discovered
Bacteria Described
Description of Sarcode
Status of the Protozoa Prior to Enunciation of General Cell Theory
The General Cell Theory
Omnis Cellula E Cellula
Establishment of the Classical Concept of Protoplasm
Chromosome Cycle Clarified
Significance of Sexuality
Protoplasmic Models
Mechanism of Sex Determination
PATHOLOGY
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PARASITOLOGY AND TO THE BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
OF PATHOLOGY
Germ Theory of Disease
Pathology as Objective Biology
Foundations of Modern Medical Physiology
From Humoral to Anatomical Pathology
Artificial Active Immunization
Disease as the Result of Dietary Defciency
Alternation of Generations and Hosts
Foundations of Cellular Pathology
Determinism and Medicine
Insect Transmission of Disease
Immunity via Artificially Attenuated Virus
Insects as Vectors of Disease
General Zoological Interpretation of Inflammation
Substances Which Cannot Be Absent without Injury
EVOLUTION AND HEREDITY
PAPERS RELATED TO THE PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION OF NEW TYPES
Beginnings of Modern Paleontology
Evolution as Deterioration
Population and Nutrition
Evolution through Environmentally Produced Modification
Geological History Reasoned from Paleontology
Geology and Organic Evolution
Joint Publication of Darwin's and Wallace's Arguments in Favor of Natural
Selection
The Defense of Darwin
Morphology, Embryology, and Evolution
Theory of Pangenes
Oceanographic Evidence of Geological History of Land Mases
That Transmissible Variations Arise from Modifications of a Hereditary Sub
stance
Human Inheritance
Evolution and Variation
Chromosomal Basis of Mendelian Inheritance
Creative Evolution
ZOOGEOGRAPHY
Effects of Geographical Isolation
The Depths of the Sea
Delineation of Zoogeographical Areas
INDEX
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