Multidisciplinary Learned Societies

Learned societies that elect members from many fields of the sciences and the humanities rather than from a single discipline, including the American Philosophical Society, founded in Philadelphia in 1743, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1780. A body belongs here when its cited article calls it a learned society, an honorary society or a scholarly organization covering both the sciences and the humanities. It excludes national academies of science, which sit in their own group, and societies of one discipline or profession, which also sit in a group of their own.