Amos Binney

Amos Binney
Amos Binney
Born	(1803-10-18)October 18, 1803 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	February 18, 1847(1847-02-18) (aged 43) Rome, Italy
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University and Harvard College
Scientific career
Fields	malacology

Amos Binney (October 18, 1803 – February 18, 1847) was an American physician and malacologist.^[1]

Biography

His son was William G. Binney.

He was a co-founder of Boston Society of Natural History in 1830^[2] and he was a member of the society until his death in 1847.^[2] He was also a president of the society from May 17, 1843, to May 5, 1847.^[2]

He ran in the 1827 Boston mayoral election.

Bibliography

• (1851-1855). The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States, and the adjacent territories of North America.
  • Volume 1 - edited by Augustus Addison Gould
  • Volume 2
  • Volume 3
  • Volume 4

References

1. "Amos Binney" http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/BinneyA.html accessed 31 May 2012.
2. Creed P. R. (ed.) (1930). The Boston Society of Natural History, 1830-1930. Boston. 120 pp., p. 15.

External links

• Works by or about Amos Binney at the Internet Archive
• photo of memorial of Amos Binney in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts