94 VANESSA FURCILLATA. 



Dr. Newberry presented the skull and certain bones and 

 pottery of the mound builders, exhumed in Cleveland lately 

 while grading near Pittsburgh street. A committee con- 

 sisting of Dr. Newberry, Profs. Brainerd and Smith, were 

 appointed to collect facts and report on the relics of the 

 aboriginal race which have been found in the vicinity of 

 Cleveland. 



Dr. Newberry presented specimens of coal from West 

 Virginia, remarkably compact and dense. 



Prof. H. L. Smith presented a communication on the 

 present arrangement of the days of the week, showing the 

 coincidence of the Scandinavian, Gi'ecian, Hindoo and 

 Egyptian Mythology, and that the order was founded 

 directly from observations on and in reference to the side- 

 rial revolutions of the five i^lanates, the moon and the sun. 



The committee on diploma reported, and Messrs. New- 

 berry, Brown and Atkinson were appointed a committee to 

 procure the necessary engraving. 



A committee, with instructions, was appointed to memo- 

 rialize the Legislature, in reference to the bill now before 

 them, for a Geological Survey. 



Dr. A. S. Baldwin, of Shasta, California, was elected a 

 Corresponding Member. 



VANESSA FURCILLATA. 



BY DR. THADDEUS W. HARRIS. 



Extract of a Letter to Prof. Kirtland, Read before the Academy, and dated 



Cambridge, March 15, 1854. 

 " I can supply you with information respecting the larva 

 of Vanessa furcillata^ Say, from my unpublished notes. 

 First, let me observe that Dr. Leach misled me concerning 

 the generical name of Cynthia.) which he did not apply 

 correctly. Fabricius gave it to a groupe containing our 

 Vanessa interrogationis in one section, and the cardui in 

 another section ; but he restricted Vanessa to such species 



