Edward William Binney
Edward William Binney (* 1812 in Morton (Nottinghamshire) , † December 19, 1881 in Manchester ) was a British paleobotanist and geologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Binney ".
Binney began as a lawyer in Chesterfield, moved to Manchester in 1836, where he gave up the legal profession and turned to geology. In 1838 he was one of the founders of the Manchester Geological Society and one of its honorary secretaries, and in 1857 and 1865 its president. He was also secretary and president of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.
He dealt with the geology of the area around Manchester, Yorkshire and Lancashire (especially from the Carboniferous and Permian) and with local coal deposits and the plant fossils occurring therein and published a monograph on fossil plants of the Carboniferous. With Joseph Dalton Hooker he was the first to describe peat dolomite (coal balls) in 1855 .
In 1856 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . His large collection of fossils went to Owen College in Manchester.
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- Observations on the Structure of Fossil Plants found in the Carboniferous Strata, Palaeontographical Society, 1868-1875
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| SURNAME | Binney, Edward William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geologist and paleobotanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morton (Nottinghamshire) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1881 |
| Place of death | Manchester |