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EDWARD BINNEY was born on December 7, 1819, and died in December, 1881. He was three times president of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, was president of the Manchester Geological Society, and in 1856 was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. With Young and Meldrum he commenced the manufacture of mineral oils from Boghead coal obtained from Bathgate, near Linlithgow, in 1850; and in fourteen years—when the patent had run out—a net profit of 60,000l. was made.
The Centenary of a Nineteenth-Century Geologist—Edward William Binney, F.R.S.
James Binney. Pp. 58. (Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1912.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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The Centenary of a Nineteenth-Century Geologist—Edward William Binney, F.R.S. . Nature 90, 539 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090539c0
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