The Journal of Experimental Biology

The Journal of

Experimental Biology

Published for The Company of Biologists, Limited

LONDON Cambridge University Press

FETTER LANE, E.C.4

BOMBAY ? CALCUTTA ? MADRAS

Macmillan

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The Journal of

Experimental Biology

(Late The British Journal of Experimental Biology)

EDITED BY

J. GRAY

ASSISTED BY

THE HON. SECRETARIES, SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

VOLUME XIV

CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

CONTENTS

No. i. JANUARY 1937

O. M. HELFF, Studies on Amphibian Metamorphosis: XV. Direct Tympanic Membrane Formation from Dermal Plicae Integument Transplanted to the Ear Region. (With Two Plates)

PAGE

1

C H . S. KOSHTOJANZ AND P H . D . VASSILENKO, On the Receptor Function of the

Swim Bladder of Fishes. (With Five Text-figures)

16

L. E. R. PICKEN, T h e Mechanism of Urine Formation in Invertebrates: II. The Excretory Mechanism in Certain Mollusca. (With One Text-figure) . 20

AUGUST KROGH AND HANS H. USSING, A Note on the Permeability of Trout Eggs

to D , 0 and HjO

35

H. A. SHAPIRO, T h e Biological Basis of Sexual Behaviour in Amphibia. IV. (With

One Plate)

38

MraostAW ANDRZEJ ZIELINSKI, Phosphagen and Creatine in Frog's Eggs. (With

Two Text-figures)

48

L. C. BEADLE, Adaptation to Changes of Salinity in the Polychaetes:

I. Control of Body Volume and of Body Fluid Concentration in Nereis diversi-

color. (With Five Text-figures) . . . . . . . . .

56

D . M . HALL AND C. F . A. PANTIN, T h e Nerve Net of the Actinozoa: V. Temperature and Facilitation in Metridium senile. (With Three Text-figures) 71

URSULA WYKES, T h e Photic Control of Pigmentary Responses in Teleost Fishes.

(With One Plate and Two Text-figures)

79

A. W. A. BROWN, Studies on the Excreta of a Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus

Say.)

87

J. GRAY, Pseudo-rheotropism in Fishes. (With Five Text-figures) . . .

95

R. S. A. BEAUCHAMP, Rate of Movement and Rheotaxis in Planaria alpma. (With

Four Text-figures) . . . . . . . . . . .

104

No. 2. APRIL 1937

G. P. WELLS, Studies on the Physiology of Arenicola marina L . : I. The Pace-maker role of the Oesophagus, and the Action of Adrenaline and Acetylcholine. (With One Plate and Twenty-six Text-figures) . . . 1 1 7

JANE MEIKLEJOHN, The Oxygen Uptake of Suspensions and Cultures of a Free-

living Bacterium. (With Four Text-figures)

158

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