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 2021–2022 academic year, the CAAS had 250 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 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