WILLEY, Henry, botanist, born in Geneseo, New York, 19 July, 1824. He was educated at the normal school in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and afterward taught a farm-school for boys in Oeneseo. Subsequently he studied law, and was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of New York in August, 1848. For several years he practised his profession, first in Geneseo, and then in Spencer-port, New York In 1858 he went to Massachusetts, and after teaching for several years settled in New Bedford as editor of the "Daily Evening Standard," which occupation he still continues. During this time he became interested in the study of lichens, of which he has made a collection, both of exotic and native species. His publications on lithonology have been quite extensive, and, besides various reports to the national surveys of specimens submitted to him for examination, include "A List of North American Lichens" (New Bedford, 1872) and "'An Introduction to the Study of Lichens" (1887). He is also the author of a "Willey Genealogy" (1888).