THE CONl^EOTIOUT ACADEMY OF AETS 



AND SCIEINCES. 



CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSAKY, OCTOBER 11th, 1899. 



NORTH SHEFFIELD HALL. 

 Afternoon Session, 3 p. m. 



1. Reading of Communications from Corresponding Societies, 



by Alexander W. Evans, Ph.D., Secretary of the Academy. 



2. Address of Welcome, by His Honor Lyman A. Mills, 



Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut. 



3. Address ; The Debt of this Century to Learned Societies, 



by Professor William H. Brewer, Pii.D., President of 

 the xicademy. 



4. Address ; Scientific Thought in the Nineteenth Century, by 



Professor William North Rice, LL.D., of Wesleyan 

 University. 



[At the close of the addresses an opportunity will be offered for oral 

 communications from delegates of Corresponding Societies.] 



Evening Session, 8 p. m. 

 5. Address; The History of the Academy during its First 

 Century, by Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin, LL.D. 



Reception by the Academy of delegates from Corresponding Societies and 

 invited guests, in Winchester Hall, from 9 to 11 p. m. 



With the above program the Connecticut Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences, the third in age of the learned societies of America, 

 celebrated on the 11th of October, eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 nine, its one-hundredth anniversary. By a happy coincidence the 

 Centennial of the Academy came into near conjunction with 

 the Bicentennial of Yale University, the foster-parent of the 



