. "1803"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "William Henry Benson (* 1803 in Dublin, Irland; \u2020 27. Januar 1870 in Cheltenham) war Staatsbeamter in Britisch-Indien. Sein besonderes Interesse galt der Malakologie. Er brachte es auf eine beachtliche Sammlung von Weichtieren. In seinen Publikationen beschrieb er viele Spezies."@de . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "William Henry Benson (* 1803 in Dublin, Irland; \u2020 27. Januar 1870 in Cheltenham) war Staatsbeamter in Britisch-Indien. Sein besonderes Interesse galt der Malakologie. Er brachte es auf eine beachtliche Sammlung von Weichtieren. In seinen Publikationen beschrieb er viele Spezies."@de . "William Henry Benson"@en . . . . . "Henry Augustus Pilsbry"@en . . . . . . . . "William Henry Benson"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "1082421072"^^ . . "probably in Dublin"@en . . "William Henry Benson (1803, probably in Dublin - 27 January 1870) was a civil servant in British India and an amateur malacologist. He made large collections of molluscs and described numerous species from the U.K., India and South Africa. On the return from a trip to Mauritius he brought a couple of living Achatina fulica which he gave to a friend in Calcutta in April 1847 who subsequently released them in a garden at Chowringhee. The species is today a pest in many parts of India."@en . . . "8741"^^ . . "William Henry Benson"@en . . . . . . . . . "William Henry Benson"@de . . . . . . . . . . "21729327"^^ . . . . . . "William Henry Benson (1803, probably in Dublin - 27 January 1870) was a civil servant in British India and an amateur malacologist. He made large collections of molluscs and described numerous species from the U.K., India and South Africa. He joined Haileybury College in 1819 and joined the East India Company at Bengal. He reached Calcutta on 30 October 1821 and worked in a number of positions including a District Collector and Officiating Judge in Meerut, Bareilly and other parts of northern India. During his stay in India he collected specimens of numerous land snails some of which he sent to Hugh Cuming in England. On the return from a trip to Mauritius he brought a couple of living Achatina fulica which he gave to a friend in Calcutta in April 1847 who subsequently released them in a garden at Chowringhee. The species is today a pest in many parts of India. His son-in-law Major Richard Sankey was executor of his estate and the collections that he bequeathed went to Sylvanus Hanley, who removed the locality labels of all the specimens thus decreasing their value."@en . . . . . "William Henry Benson"@en . . . . .