BINNEY, EDWARD WILLIAM English geologist, was born at Morton, Nottinghamshire. He was articled to a solicitor in Chesterfield, and in 1836 settled at Manchester. On the Coal Measures he became an acknowledged authority, and wrote Observations on the Structure of Fossil Plants found in the Carboniferous Strata (1868-75). His large collection of fossils was placed in Owen's College. He died at Manchester on Dec. 19, 1881.