L E T T E R
■ F R O M
J O H N I B B E T S O N , E sq ,
Secretary to,the Commiffioners of Longitude,
T O
Sir J O H N P R I N G L E , Baronet, P . R . S.
S I R,
TH E Earl of Sandwich, and the other Commiffion.
ers for the Difcovery of Longitude at Sea, &c. who
were prefent at a late meeting at this place, having ex-
prefied to you a defire that the very learned and ingenious
Difcourfe upon fome late Improvements of the Means for
preferving the Health of Mariners, which was delivered by
you at the Anniverfary Meeting of the Royal Society, on
the 30th of November laft, might, with Captain Cook’s
Paper therein referred to, be printed, and annexed to the
Account o f the Aftronomical and Pliilofophical Obfervations
made in the courfe of the Laid Captain Cook’s late voyage,
which account is preparing for the prefs, under their di-
retiionj and it having been fince thought more proper
that
