While the preparations for the expedition were going forward, and those who were at the head of the Admiralty vied with one another in their zeal to render it, conformable to our navigator's wishes, his scientific friends, to testify their sense of the obligations under which he had laid them, added lustre to his name, by the grant of literary honours. He enjoyed the friendship of Sir John Pringle, President of the Royal Society, and was in habits of intimacy with many of its members. In the latter end of 1775, he had been proposed as a candidate for admission to that Institution; and on the 29th of February, 1776, he was unanimously chosen a Fellow of the Royal Society. On the 7th of March, he was admitted; and in the same evening, a Paper which he had prepared, on the Method taken for preserving the Health of his crew, was read to the Society. Another paper of his, on the Tides in the South Seas, was read on the 18th of April. These two papers are the 22nd
