RITERS on the resources of the Moslem world commonly give little definite information about one of the most picturesque as well as valuable of its resources-the date palm. With sufficient effort, however, it is possible to bring together many more data on the subject than one might at first suppose. In the more highly organized countries of its occurrence, where the palm is subject to taxation, it is enumerated in the periodical census. Elsewhere, the estimates of travelers must be depended on. A summary of all the available sources of information indicates that there are in the entire world something like 90,000,000 date palms, of which more than half are in the countries bordering on the Persian Gulf. Iraq is far in the lead.