Note 191 — BOOK IV JUDEA, GREECE, AND INDIA (continued 2)
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Bauer, in Vom Griechentum zum Christentum, says that Alexander sent a mission of exploration to Abyssinia to enable Aristotle to settle the question of the cause of the Nile inundations (melting of mountain snows), and that he also had tropical flora and other material collected for him—E. B.