20 MARCH 1920, Page 12

THE PALESTINE CROCODILE.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With regard to Mr. E. J. Thompson's article on the above subject in your issue of February 14th, I am told that crocodiles have not been seen below Aswan on the Nile since the building of the dam there. If this is so, and in the light of Mr. Thompson's last paragraph, I would gather that crocodiles had found their way by sea from the Nile previous to the formation of the darn, and that that is the reason why none have been found of late years.—I am, Sir, &c., A. P. S.