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.
The CAAS operates as a 501(c)(3) Public Charity. In 2014, it claimed $40,098 in total revenue, $33,410 in total expenses, and $111,835 in total assets.
In the 2023–2024 academic year, the CAAS had 307 members.
Publications Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences A Manual of the Writings in Middle English Catalogue of publications
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 gin William Kurtz Wimsatt Jr., literary theorist and critic
References
Sources 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)
External links
Scholarly Societies entry CAAS publications digitized by the Internet Archive