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To Edward Sabine   4 December [1864]

Summary

Thanks ES for his "splendid eulogium" [in Presidential Address to Royal Society on award of Copley Medal]. CD would have liked him to have said "a little more" about Origin.

CD feels no doubt about natural selection. Has heard from Germany of "a string of excellent men" who accept it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Sabine; Royal Society of London
Date:  4 Dec [1864]
Classmark:  The Royal Society (Sa: 388)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4694