310 Extracts from the Minute- Book of the Linne an Society. 
Feb. 21, Mr. Dryander, Vice President in the chair, reported 
1804. that the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. 
H.M.L.S., had presented to the Society the whole of his 
very valuable collection of Insects, and that it was this 
day removed to the Society's apartments. 
Mar. 6. Read a letter from the President,, stating a curious" 
observation relative to the musical intervals in the notes 
of the Cuckoo, communicated by an eminent professor 
at Norwich. This gentleman has invariably found the 
Cuckoo to begin early in the season with the interval of 
a minor third. The bird then proceeds to a major third, 
next to a fourth, then a fifth ; after which his voice 
breaks, without his ever attaining a minor sixth. 
Mar. 20. Mr. Sowerby, F.L.S., presented a Sketch of the Head; 
of a new species of Whale or Cachelot, of the natural 
size, found in the month of September last, stranded 
on the estate of James Brodie, Esq. F.L.S.,in the county 
of Elgin. Mr. Sowerby states that the whole animal 
was sixteen feet long, and proposes that it may be named 
Physeter bidens. 
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