Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences

American learned society

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The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences is a learned society founded in 1799 in New Haven, Connecticut "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest and happiness of a free and virtuous people." Its purpose is the dissemination of scholarly information.

In the 2021–2022 academic year, the CAAS had 266 members.

## Publications

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* Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
* Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
* Catalogue of publications

## Notable members

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* Asger Aaboe, historian and mathematician
* Hezekiah Augur, sculptor and inventor
* Simeon E. Baldwin, jurist, law professor and governor
* Charles Emerson Beecher, paleontologist
* Bertram Boltwood, radiochemist
* Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, graphic designer, artist and educator
* William Henry Brewer, botanist
* George Jarvis Brush, mineralogist and academic administrator
* Henry A. Bumstead, electromagnetist
* Russell Henry Chittenden, biochemist
* Edward Salisbury Dana, mineralogist and physicist
* Arnold Dashefsky, sociologist
* Franklin Bowditch Dexter, librarian and university administrator
* Timothy Dwight, educator and theologian
* Edson Fessenden Gallaudet, aviator
* Josiah Willard Gibbs, physicist, chemist, and mathematician
* Frank Austin Gooch, chemist and engineer
* Henry Solon Graves, forester and educator
* Charles Sheldon Hastings, physicist
* Yandell Henderson, physiologist
* James Mason Hoppin, educator and writer
* George Trumbull Ladd, philosopher, educator, and psychologist
* Joseph LaPalombara, political scientist
* Charles Lemert, sociologist
* Linda Lorimer, university administrator
* Chester Lyman, president
* George Grant MacCurdy, anthropologist
* Ronald Mallett, theoretical physicist
* Lafayette Mendel, nutritionist
* Hubert Anson Newton, astronomer and mathematician
* Alexander Petrunkevitch, arachnologist
* Charles Brinckerhoff Richards, engineer
* William North Rice, geologist, educator, Methodist theologian
* John Rose, organist
* Edward Elbridge Salisbury, Sanskritist
* Benjamin Silliman, chemist and geologist
* Joseph Siry, architectural historian
* Gaddis Smith, historian
* Percey F. Smith, mathematician
* Jennifer Tucker, historian and biologist
* Addison Van Name, librarian and linguist
* John Monroe Van Vleck, mathematician and astronomer
* Addison Emery Verrill, president
* Noah Webster, lexicographer, author, editor, prolific author
* Eli Whitney, inventor of cotton gin
* William Kurtz Wimsatt Jr., literary theorist and critic

## Sources

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* Rollin Gustav Osterweis, The Sesquicentennial History of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (New Haven, 1949)
* Mary Ellen Ellsworth, A History of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 1799-1999 (Transactions, vol. 55) ISBN 9781878500816

## External links

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* Official website
* Yale University entry
* Scholarly Societies entry

* Connecticut portal

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