China, agriculture in north and south, xiv, 72-3; ancient civilization, x, 13, xv, 123, 127; beriberi in, ix, 35; bubonic plague in, x, 165; Cambrian deposits, iii, 184; coal, in, 345; coasts, xiv, 248, 251, 257; corn growing, xiii, 212; David's deer, xii, 316; dust whirls, i, 60; famines, xiv, 73; fault-blocks of north, 125; fishing with cormorants, xv, 223-4; ginkgo tree, xiii, 315; goral of, xii, 325; gunpowder invention, v, 361; hookworm in, x, 174; influence on West, xiv, 357; Jesuit survey, xvi, 123; loess formations, i, 53-4, iii, 74, xiv, 63, 72-5; medical education and Rockefeller Fund, x, 172; medicine of ancient, 13; meteorological service, i, 223; mountain valley conditions, xv, 131; opium and, xiii, 253; plains and mountains, xiv, 217; population distribution, 219; rice-growing, xiii, 213, 214; rivers of, xiv, 196; shark's fins as food in, xii, 147; smallpox inoculation in, x, 100, 207; storm signals, i, 283; sugar in, xiii, 215; tea in, 227, 228; temple orientation, ii, 26; trees of, xiv, 377; wheat in, xiii, 210 (see also Chinese) China (pottery), viii, 283 China Clay, iii, 333 Chinch Bug, xii, 114 Chinchillas, xii, 289 Chinese, ancestor worship of, xv, 341; ancient agriculture, xiii, 210; ancient civilization, x, 13, xvi, 53, 54, 62; ancient knowledge of cloves, xiii, 262; ancient knowledge of lodestone, iv, 52, vi, 28; calculating machines, xv, 183, xvi, 61; finger nails of, xv, 260; ideas of future life, 336; ideas of eclipses, ii, 209; in tropics, xiv, 356; opium use, xiii, 253; paper invention, v, 290; prepotency in crosses, x, 230; printing invention, v, 300-1, xv, 179; use of feet by, 61; veneration for writing among, 164; well-water boiling, xiv, 140; women, feet of, xv, 254-5, 260, 261 (fig.); women, hairdressing of, 261 Chinese Astronomy, ii, 21-2, 331, xvi, 56-7 Chinese Language, xv, 170-1 Chinese Writing, xv, 169-72 Chinooks, i, 133, 369 Chipmunks, xii, 293-4 Chitin, xii, 39, 69 Chitons, xii, 58, 67 Chloramin, x, 181, 183 Chloramine T., x, 382 Chloride of Lime, viii, 333 Chlorides, halogen derivatives, viii, 210; metal occurrence in, 130, 198 Chlorine, viii, 18, 22, 84-5, 181, 297-8; as antiseptic, 333; atomic weight and symbol, 383; bleaching by, vii, 354, viii, 86, 146, 256, 274; gold reaction with, 174; in body tissues, 354; in silicates, viii, 193; manufacture and uses, 274, 284; molecular speed, 24; obtained from salt, 138, 140, 275; plant uses, 337, 341; solubility, in water, 111; tests, for, 286, 287, 290; use in chemical warfare, 262-3, x, 186; water disinfection by, viii, 86, 274, 319, 321 Chlorine Derivatives, viii, 210, 211-12, 231 Chlorite, iii, 326-7
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