Presentations: The Academy holds meetings which provide an opportunity to hear distinguished speakers report about current work in the sciences, arts, humanities, and topics of general interest. These presentations are designed to be stimulating and interesting to all, the lay person as well as the scholar. All lectures are free and open to the public and are announced in university calendars, local newspapers, and by direct mail to Academy members. Eight monthly presentations are held during the academic year from September to May on the campuses of Yale University and Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Trinity College in Hartford, Wesleyan University in Middletown, the University of Connecticut in Storrs, and at other educational sites. In recent years, Academy members and their guests have gathered for dinner before the presentations. Publications: As part of its mission to disseminate scholarly information, in 1810 the Academy commenced publications on all aspects of the sciences, arts, and humanities. It has three series, Memoirs are monographs or booklength publications; Transactions are essays in history, economics, mathematics, archeology, languages, literature, and the natural sciences, and most recently, articles of an interdisciplinary nature. The third series, A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, is the definitive reference source in this field. First published in 1916, a modern and expanded version commenced in 1967 and is now in its ninth volume. The Academy welcomes the submission of scholarly manuscripts for possible publication. Such material may be sent to the Publications Committee.