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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
Date:
1 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 383
Summary:

Discusses EM’s book [Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol und Venetien (1878–9)]. Pleased by EM’s views of geological chronology based on evolution. Thinks distribution of land and sea formerly very different. New genera and families may have been developed on isolated tracks and migrated.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
Date:
29 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 146: 384
Summary:

Comments on EM’s work in Dolomites [Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol (1879)]. Had wondered whether ancient corals formed reefs.

Obliged for EM’s photograph. Sends his own.

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Darwin Correspondence Project