Amos Binney (October 18, 1803 – February 18, 1847) was an American medical doctor, malacologist, and co-founder and president of the Boston Society of Natural History."Amos Binney" http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/BinneyA.html accessed 31 May 2012.
Biography His son was William G. Binney.
He was a co-founder of Boston Society of Natural History in 1830Creed P. R. (ed.) (1930). The Boston Society of Natural History, 1830–1930. Boston. 120 pp., p. 15. and he was a member of the society until his death in 1847. He was also a president of the society from May 17, 1843, to May 5, 1847.
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
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photo of memorial of Amos Binney in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts