William G. Binney Explained

Birth Name:	William Greene Binney
Birth Date:	22 October 1833
Birth Place:	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Death Place:	Burlington, New Jersey, United States
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Malacology, Conchology
Alma Mater:	Harvard University
Spouse:	Marie Louise Chamberlain^[1]

William Greene Binney (October 22, 1833 – August 3, 1909)^[2] was an American attorney known for his avocation as a malacologist, working mostly during the second half of the nineteenth century. He was responsible for volumes 4 and 5 of The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States,^{[3] [4]} a task he took over from his father, Amos Binney, and collaborator, Augustus Addison Gould. The ninety engraved plates which were part of volume 5, illustrating most of the then known land mollusk fauna, are particularly noteworthy.

Binney's obituary in the New York Times included the following information:^[5]

Taxa

Taxa named in honor of Binney include:

• Nesovitrea binneyana (E. S. Morse, 1864)

Bibliography

• The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States, and the adjacent territories of North America
  • Binney W. G. (1859) Volume 4
  • Binney W. G. (July 1878) Volume 5. Plates.

External links

• Chronology of Science in the United States, including reference to some of Binney's work

Notes and References

1. http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0353 Henry P. Binney Family Papers
2. Web site: William Greene Binney.
3. Binney, William G. 1859. The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States. Vol. 4. Boston MA: The Boston Journal of Natural History.
4. Binney, William G. 1878. The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States. Vol. 5. Cambridge MA: Harvard College Museum of Comparative Zoology.
5. News: W. G. Binney obituary. 4 August 1909. The New York Times. 7.