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Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (CAAS) 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.

Publications
Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and SciencesMemoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and SciencesA Manual of the Writings in Middle English • Catalogue of publications == Notable members ==
Notable members
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 • H. Catherine W. Skinner, geologist, mineralogist, and the first woman to serve as president of the academy. • 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 ginWilliam Kurtz Wimsatt Jr., literary theorist and critic == References ==
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