26 November 1857 – 23 July 1920
Born: Farmersville, Indiana.
Died: DuBois, Illinois.
Occupation: Amateur Conchologist. Lived in DuBois, Illinois 1881-1920. Collected extensively in the southeastern, U.S.; Mexico, 1906-1909; Guatemala, 1912-1917; Texas, 1919. At least 15 species named in his honor. Purchased Chas. S. Hodgson collection in 1919 which was bequethed to the University of Illinois Museum of Natural History in 1921 and transferred to the Illinois Natural History Survey in 1998.
Research Interests: Freshwater and land Mollusca.
Data from: Abbott, R.T., and M.E. Young (eds.). 1973. American Malacologists: A national register of professional and amateur malacologists and private shell collectors and biographies of early American mollusk workers born between 1618 and 1900. American Malacologists, Falls Church, Virginia. Consolidated/Drake Press, Philadelphia. 494 pp.
Other References: Walker, B. 1920 Anson A. Hinkley. Nautilus 34(2):55-57 + 1 plate.
Johnson, C.W. 1921. The Hinkley and Nason Collections. Nautilus 35(2):62.
Published 20 papers on land and freshwater mollusks.
Partial Bibliography
Hinkley, A.A. 1885. Catalogue of Land and Fresh Water Shells in the Cabinets of A. A. Hinckley. (Dubois, Illinois). 27 pp.
Hinkley, A.A. 1887 Record of a short collecting tour in White, Hardin and Gallatin Counties, Illinois. Conchologists Exchange 1(?):56-??
Hinkley, A.A. 1894. New locality for Unio ellipsis Lea. Nautilus 8(7):82.
Hinkley, A.A. 1904. List of Alabama shells collected in October and November, 1903. Nautilus 18(4):37-45.
Hinkley, A.A. 1904. List of Alabama shells collected in October and November, 1903. (cont.) Nautilus 18(5):54-57.
Hinkley, A.A. 1906. Some shells from Mississippi and Alabama. Nautilus 20(3):34-36.
Hinkley, A.A. 1906. Some shells from Mississippi and Alabama. (cont.) Nautilus 20(4):40-44.
Hinkley, A.A. 1906. Some shells from Mississippi and Alabama. (cont.) Nautilus 20(5):52-55.
Hinkley, A.A. 1907. Shells collected in northeastern Mexico. Nautilus 21(7):76-80.
Hinkley, A.A. 1908. A new species of Pyrgulopsis. Nautilus 21(10):117-118.
Hinkley, A.A. 1908. Meseschiza grosvenorii, Lea. Nautilus 22(6):56.
Hinkley, A.A. 1915. New fresh-water shells from the Ozark Mountains. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 49:587-589 + 1 plate.
Hinkley, A.A. 1916. New fresh-water shells from the Ozark Mountains. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 49(2126):587-589 + 1 plate.
Hinkley, A.A. 1919. Mollusca found in the vicinity of DuBois, Illinois. Nautilus 33(1):14-17.
Hinkley, A.A. 1920. Guatemala mollusca. Nautilus 34(2):37-55.
Hinkley, A.A. 1920. A new species of Goniobasis. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 78:1-3.
Hinkley, A.A., and P. Marsh. 1885. List of shells collected in central Tennessee by A.A. Hinkley and P. Marsh with notes on species. Privately Printed. Aledo, Illinois. 10 pp.
Pilsbry, H.A., and A.A. Hinkley. 1909. Melaniidae of the Panuco River system, Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 61:519-531 + 2 plates.