S10 Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean Societi/. 



Feb. 21, Mr. Dryander, Vice President in the chair, reported 



1304. 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 ?ninor 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 

 Phi/seter bidens. 



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