Benjamin Daniel Greene

Benjamin Daniel Greene (1793 – 1862) was an American lawyer, physician, naturalist, and botanist.

In September 1815 he was admitted to the bar in Suffolk County, Massachusetts and then practiced law in Boston.

He acquired his higher medical doctorate in Edinburgh in 1821, but subsequently spent most of his time studying natural science, especially botany.

Greene was one of the founders of the Boston Society of Natural History in 1830 and was its first president, holding that office until 1837.

To the Boston Society of Natural History, he bequeathed his herbarium and botanical library in 1857 and $9,000 upon his death.