William Greene Binney (October 22, 1833 – August 3, 1909) 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,Binney, William G. 1859. The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States. Vol. 4. Boston MA: The Boston Journal of Natural History.Binney, William G. 1878. The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States. Vol. 5. Cambridge MA: Harvard College Museum of Comparative Zoology. 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:
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.
References
External links Chronology of Science in the United States, including reference to some of Binney's work