> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 230](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189701) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12733-1) LSID 12733-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4733834) QID Q4733834 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Phelps, Almira (previously Lincoln, née Hart or Heart) (1793-1884), American popular writer on botany and teacher at the Troy Female Seminary; from 1838-1841 in charge of a seminary in West Chester, Pa., from 1841 id. of the Patapsco Female Institute, Ellicott City, Md.; married Samuel Lincoln 1817, John Phelps 1831. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Phelps* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Phelps*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Note Almira Heart \[Hart\] was born 15 Jul 1793 in Berlin, Conn.; she married (1817) Simeon (?) Samuel Lincoln, who died in 1823; in 1823 she married John Phelps, who died 1847. Mrs. Phelps herself died at Baltimore, Md., 15 Jul 1884. In her dedication on 20 Apr 1829 to her mother, in the *Familiar lectures*, she spelled her mother's name Mrs. Lydia Heart. The spelling Hart occurs in later sources. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: see Lincoln, A., 3: 80. BM 3: 1116; Bossert p. 309 (b. 15 Jul 1793; d. 15 Jul 1884); Ewan ed. 1: 50; Jackson p. 44; ME 1: 219, 3: 402-403; PR 5211 (ed. 1: 5906); Rehder 5: 669; Tucker 1: 553. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 1575. 1870. - Anon., Appleton's Cycl. Amer. Biogr. 4: 750-751. 1888 (d. 15 Jul 1884; biogr.); Bot. Gaz. 9: 135-136. 1884 (obit., d. 14 Jul 1884); Gard. Mon., Meehan 26: 253. 1884 (obit., d. 14 Jul 1884); Natl. Cycl. Amer. Biogr. 11: 359. 1909 (biogr., b. 15 Jul 1793, d. 15 Jul 1884). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 39, 115. 1969. - Voss, E.G., Contr. Univ. Mich. Herb. 13: 68. 1978. #### Eponymy *Phelpsiella* Maguire (1958) is dedicated jointly to the ornithologists, natural historians and explorers in Venezuela, Dr. William H. Phelps, (1875-1965), Mr. William H. Phelps, Jr. (-), and the latter's wife, Kathleen Deery Phelps (-). ### Publications ##### n.7838. Familiar lectures on botany **Title** *Familiar lectures on botany*. Including practical and elementary botany, with generic and specific descriptions of the most common native and foreign plants, and a vocabulary of botanical terms. For the use of higher schools and academies. By Mrs. Almira H. Lincoln, vice-principal of Troy Female seminary. Hartford (published by H. and F.J. Huntington; G. & C. & H. Carvill, New York; Richardson & Lord, Boston) 1829. Duod. (in sixes). **Abbreviated title**: *Famil. lect. bot.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: Jul 1829 (date of legal deposit 4 Jul 1829, dedic. 20 Apr 1829), p. \[i\]-x, \[ii\]-335, \[336, err.\], \[1-4, index\], *pl. 1-13. Copies*: US, USDA. – For further information on this and subsequent editions see Rehder 1: 8. *Ed. 2*: 1831, p. \[i\]-xii, \[13\]-428, \[1, err.\], *pl. 1-13, 13* \[*14*\]. *Copy*: HU. – Second edition: Hartford (id.) 1831. *Ed. 3*: 1832, p. \[i\]-xii, \[13\]-440. *Copies*: UC, USDA. *Ed. 4*: 1835, p. \[i\]-x, \[xii\], \[13\]-307, \[1\]-190, \[1, err.\], *pl. 1-7. Copies*: MO, USDA. *Ed. 5*: 1836, p. \[1-4, adverts.\], \[5\]-246, \[1\]-186, *pl. 1-8* (in pagination). *Copies*: HU, LC, PH. – Familiar lectures on botany, practical, elementary and physiological; with an appendix,... fifth edition,... Hartford (published by F.J. Huntington). 1836. Duod. *Ed. 5*: *New York Issue*: 1837, idem. *Copies*: HU, MARY. – New York (published by F.J. Huntington & Co....) 1837. *Ed. 7*: 1838, p. \[1\]-246, \[1\]-186, *pl. 1-8. Copies*: LC, UC, USDA. – New York (published by F.J. Huntington & Co....). *Ed. 10*: 1840, p. \[1\]-246, \[1\]-186, *pl. 1-8. Copy*: U. – New York (id.). *Ed. 12*: 1841, p. \[i-x\], 11-246, \[1\]-186, *pl. 1-8. Copy*: USDA. *Ed. 13*: 1841, p. \[5\]-241, \[1\]-186, *pl. 1-8* (in text). *Copy*: HU. *Ed. 17*: 1842, p. \[5\]-246, \[247\], *pl. 1-8* w.t. \[27\]-186. *Copy*: LC (possibly incomplete). *New edition*: 1845, p. \[5\]-246, \[247-248\], *pl. 1-8*, \[27\]-220. *Copies*: LC, USDA. – Reissued 1847, 1848, 1850. *New edition*: 1852, p. \[1\]-297, \[21\]-208, *pl. 1-8*, w.t. *Copies*: LC, US, USDA. – Reissued 1854, 1855, 1858. *New edition*: 1860, front., p. \[1\]-312, \[315-316\], *pl. 1-8* w.t., \[21\]-208. *Copy*: LC. *New edition*: 1864, front., p. \[1\]-514, *pl. 1-8. Copy*: PH.