Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
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 2015-2016 academic year, the CAAS had 396 members.
Publications
- Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Catalogue of publications
Notable members
- Asger Aaboe, historian and mathematician
- Hezekiah Augur, sculptor and inventor
- Simeon Eben Baldwin, jurist, law professor and governor
- Charles Emerson Beecher, paleontologist
- Ann A. Bliss, nurse and psychotherapist
- 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
- Wesley Roswell Coe, zoologist, botanist
- Edward Salisbury Dana, mineralogist and physicist
- Arnold Dashefsky
- Franklin Bowditch Dexter
- Daniel Dollar, librarian
- Augustus Jay DuBois
- Timothy Dwight
- John Slade Ely
- Henry Wolcott Farnam
- Edson Fessenden Gallaudet, aviator
- Susan Gibbons, librarian
- Josiah Willard Gibbs, physicist, chemist, and mathematician
- Frank Austen Gooch, chemist and engineer
- Henry Solon Graves, forester and educator
- Alan P. Haesche, historian and consultant
- Chelsea Harry, scholar of ancient Greek and German philosophy
- Charles Sheldon Hastings, physicist
- Ronald Heferman
- Yandell Henderson, physiologist
- Theodore Holford, epidemiologist
- James Mason Hoppin, educator and writer
- Justus Hotchkiss
- Ernest I. Kohorn, obstetrician
- Beverly Waugh Kunkel
- George Trumbull Ladd, philosopher, educator, and psychologist
- Joseph LaPalombara, political scientist
- Charles Lemert, sociologist
- Edwin Hoyt Lockwood
- Linda Lorimer, university administrator
- Chester Lyman, president
- George Grant MacCurdy, anthropologist
- Richard J. Mammana, church historian and ecumenist
- Lafayette Mendel, nutritionist
- Hubert Anson Newton, astronomer and mathematician
- Samuel Lewis Penfield
- David Pettigrew, philosopher and genocide studies scholar
- Alexander Petrunkevitch, arachnologist
- Louis Valentine Pirsson, geologist
- 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
- James Alexander Slater
- Gaddis Smith
- Percey F. Smith, mathematician
- Gregory H. Tignor
- Jennifer Tucker, historian and biologist
- Frank Pell Underhill
- Addison Van Name, librarian and linguist
- John Monroe Van Vleck, mathematician and astronomer
- Addison Emery Verrill, president
- George Dutton Watrous, attorney and legal scholar
- Noah Webster, lexicographer, author, editor, prolific author
- Horace Lemuel Wells
- Eli Whitney
- Kendall F. Wiggin, Connecticut State Librarian
- William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr., literary theorist and critic
- Vladimir Wozniuk, professor of religion, literature, and political thought
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