A discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners. Delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, November 30, 1776

Discourse delivered by Sir John Pringle, president of the Royal Society, on the occasion of the presentation to Captain James Cook, (in absentia, as Cook had embarked on his third voyage) of the Copley Medal awarded to him for his paper on the method taken for preserving the crew of the Resolution from scurvy; see Cook's 'The method taken for preserving the health of the crew of His Majesty's ship the Resolution' on pages 39-44.