William G. Binney

William Green Binney (1833 in Boston, Massachusetts – 1909 in Burlington, New Jersey) [1]

William G. Binney, as he is usually referenced, was an American malacologist, working mostly during the second half of the nineteenth century. He was responsible for volumes 4-5 of The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States [2] [3], 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.

Biiney's obituary, in the 4 August 1909 New York Times, includes the following information:[1]

“ Mr. Binney followed in the steps of his father, who was an authority on molluscs. Besides editing his father's works, he prepared for the Smithsonian Institution a work on "The Land and Fresh Water Shells of America" and numerous monographs on the same subject. He was also responsible, in conjunction with Amos Binney, for the collection of North American shells at the Harvard Museum. ”

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Taxa named in honor of Binney include:

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  1. ^ a b http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B02E7DE143EE033A25757C0A96E9C946897D6CF W. G. Binney obituary in 4 Aug. 1909 The New York Times p.7
  2. ^ Binney, William G. 1859. The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States. Vol. 4. Boston MA: The Boston Journal of Natural History.
  3. ^ Binney, William G. 1878. The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States. Vol. 5. Cambridge MA: Harvard College Museum of Comparative Zoology.