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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FIG. PAGE
1. Nerve-cells, from larger and smaller animals (Minot, after Irving Hardesty) 37
2. Relative magnitudes of some minute organisms (Zsigmondy) 39
3. Curves of growth in man (Quetelet and Bowditch) 61
4, 5. Mean annual increments of stature and weight in man (do.) 66, 69
6. The ratio, throughout life, of female weight to male (do.) 71
7-9. Curves of growth of child, before and after birth (His and Rüssow) 74-6
10. Curve of growth of bamboo (Ostwald, after Kraus) 77
11. Coefficients of variability in human stature (Boas and Wissler) 80
12. Growth in weight of mouse (Wolfgang Ostwald) 83
13. Do. of silkworm (Luciani and Lo Monaco) 84
14. Do. of tadpole (Ostwald, after Schaper) 85
15. Larval eels. or Leptocephali, and young elver (Joh. Schmidt) 86
16. Growth in length of Spirogyra (Hofmeister) 87
17. Pulsations of growth in Crocus (Bose) 88
18. Relative growth of brain, heart and body of man (Quetelet) 90
19. Ratio of stature to span of arms (do.) 94
20. Rates of growth near the tip of a bean-root (Sachs) 96
21, 22. The weight-length ratio of the plaice, and its annual periodic changes 99, 100
23. Variability of tail-forceps in earwigs (Bateson) 104
24. Variability of body-length in plaice 105
25. Rate of growth in plants in relation to temperature (Sachs) 109
26. Do. in maize. observed (Köppen), and calculated curves 112
27. Do. in roots of peas (Miss T. Leitch) 113
28, 29. Rate of growth of frog in relation to temperature (Jenkinson, after O. Hertwig), and calculated curves of do. 115, 6
30. Seasonal fluctuation of rate of growth in man (Daffner) 119
31. Do. in the rate of growth of trees (C. E. Hall) 120
32. Long-period fluctuation in the rate of growth of Arizona trees (A. E. Douglass) 122
33, 34. The varying form of brine-shrimps (Artemia), in relation to salinity (Abonyi) 128, 9
35-39. Curves of regenerative growth in tadpoles' tails (M. L. Durbin) 140-145
40. Relation between amount of tail removed, amount restored, and time required for restoration (M. M. Ellis) 148
41. Caryokinesis in trout's egg (Prenant, after Prof. P. Bouin) 169
42-51. Diagrams of mitotic cell-division (Prof. E. B. Wilson) 171-5
52. Chromosomes in course of splitting and separation (Hatschek and Flemming) 180