Question

A doctor working for this institution recommended the boiling of a mixture called “rob” after a 1747 experiment with treatments like vitriol and vinegar. (10[1])The writer Dava (10[1])Sobel revived the spurious connection of a 1707 disaster for this institution (10[1])to the creation (10[2])of a prize-giving board that tested the work (10[1])of John Harrison. The doctor James Lind pioneered (10[2])clinical trials while working for (10[1])this (10[1])institution, (-5[3])which ran tests of the H4 clock (10[2])designed (10[1])to solve the (10[1]-5[1])longitude (10[1]-5[1])problem. (10[4]-5[1])Scientists (10[2])accompanying this institution’s (10[1]-5[1])observation (10[1]-5[1])of (-5[1])the transit (10[1])of Venus (-5[2])coined (-5[1])the name (-5[1])of Botany (-5[1])Bay. This (-5[1])institution (10[1]-5[1])undermined its own members by switching to (10[1])West Indian (-5[1])limes, (10[1]-5[1])which lacked enough vitamin C (10[1])to prevent (10[1])scurvy. (10[6])For 10 points, (-5[1])name this institution that brought (10[1])botanists on the voyages of James Cook. (10[3])■END■ (10[10]0[7])

ANSWER: Royal Navy [or British Navy; accept English Navy; prompt on navy by asking “of what country?”; prompt on Royal Society by asking “what other institution was the Royal Society working with?”]
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