> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 433](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066773) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11837-1) LSID 11837-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355576) QID Q355576 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wood, Alphonso (1810-1881), American botanist and teacher; studied at Dartmouth College 1831-1834 and at Andover theological Seminary; teacher of Latin and natural science Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H. 1835-1849; civil engineer in the construction of a railway between Rutland, Vt. and Albany, N.Y. 1849-1851; president of the Female Seminary, Cleveland, Ohio 1851-1857; professor at Terre Haute female College, Indiana 1858-1860; principal of the Clinton female seminary, Brooklyn 1861-1865, travelled to and along the Pacific Coast 1865-1866; in retirement at West Farms, N.Y. from 1867. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Wood* \[standard form in IPNI: *Alph.Wood*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NY|NY]] (originally at New York College of Pharmacy, see Rusby 1936). – Other material at [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection YU|YU]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 515 (b. 17 Sep 1810, d. 4 Jan 1881); BM 5: 2352; CSP 6: 432 ("Wood, A."), 8: 1267, 12: 792; Ewan ed. 1: 49, 50, 51; GR p. 199; Hortus 3: 1207; Jackson p. 43, 357, 487; Lenley p. 440, 472; ME 1: 242, 3: 680 (index); PH 1-B; PR 10394; Rehder 5: 931; TL-1/1444; Tucker 1: 752-753, 2: xli, 3: 340; Zander ed. 10, p. 734, ed. 11, p. 837. #### Biofile - Anon., Appleton's Cycl. Amer, biogr. 6: 591. 1889 (b. 17 Sep 1810, d. 4 Jan 1881); Bot. Centralbl. 5: 255. 1881 (d.), 7: 223-224. 1881 (obit. not.); Bot. Gaz. 6(2): 168. 1881 (obit. not.); Bronx Borough Record and Times 19 Apr 1903, 2 p. (biogr. sketch, portr.); Bull. Torrey bot. Club 8(1): 12. 1881 (obit. not.); Natl. Cycl. Amer. biogr. 14: 278. 1917. - Bacon, A.E., Vermont bot. Club Bull. 3: 21-26. 1908 (biogr. sketch). - Eggleston, W.W., Agric. Libr. notes 2(5-7): 95-100. 1927 (bibl.). - Ewan, J., Southw. Louisiana J. 7: 23. 1967 (on his Class-Book). - Ewan, J. et al., Short. hist. bot. U.S. 8, 44, 116. 1969. - Lyon, C.J., Dartmouth Alumni Mag. 31: 18, 81-82. 1939 (class-book: 800.000 copies, 50 editions); Science 101: 484-486. 1945 (Centennial of "Class-book of botany"). - Merrill, E.D., Rhodora 50: 101-130. 1948 (overlooked names in W.'s publ.); Amer. Fern J. 38: 142-148. 13 Jan 1949 (unlisted fern names A. Wood). - Rudolph, E.D., Arch. nat. Hist. 10(3): 464, 466, 468. 1982. - Rusby, H.H., J. New York Bot. Gard. 37: 235-237. 1936 (on W.'s herbarium; bequeathed to New York College of Pharmacy which came to NY; other material in Canby herbarium at NY). - Willis, O.R., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 8(5): 53-56. 1881 (obit., portr.), also publ. in Eastcrn State Journal, reprint 6 p. Copy at NY). - Wood, A., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 3: 18-19. 1872 (on W.'s drying press: a wire press described in his Botanist and Florist 15. 1870). #### Note See Merrill (1948) for a list of overlooked names in Wood's publications. ### Publications ##### n.18.230. A class-book of botany **Title** *A class-book of botany*, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries where the science is taught. In two parts: part I. The elements of botanical science. Part II. The natural orders, illustrated by a flora of the Northern United States, particularly New England and New York... Boston (published by Crocker & Brewster), Claremont, N.H. (Simeon Ide) 1845. Duod. (in 6-s). **Abbreviated title**: *Class-book bot.* **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1845 (p. 5: 22 Jun 1844; copyright 1844), 2 parts. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY. – For a list of further editions see Eggleston (1927) and Merrill (1948). *1*: 1845, p. \[i-ii\]. \[1\]-124. *2*: 1845, p. \[i\]-ii. 3-474. *Ed. 2*(*a*): 1847 (p. 5: Apr 1847), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645. *Copies*: HH, NY, USDA. – Second edition, revised and enlarged. Boston (id.), Claremont, N.H. (id.) 1847. *Ed. 2*(*b*): 1847, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645. *Copies*: HH, NY. – As 2a but imprint Claremont, N.H. (Manufacturing Company, Simeon Ide, Agent) 1847. *Ed. 2*(*c*): 1848, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY. – Boston (published by Crocker & Brewster), Claremont, N.H. (Simeon Ide) 1848. *Ed. 2*(*d*): 1848, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv (language of flowers). *Copies*: HH, NY. – Claremont, N.H. (Manufacturing Company, Simeon Ide, Agent). 1848. *Ed. 10*(*a*): 1849, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copies*: HH, NY. – Tenth edition, revised and enlarged. Boston (published by Crocker & Brewster). Claremont, N.H. (Simeon Ide) 1849. – *Note*: Even if eds. 2(b-d) were counted as eds. 3-5; eds. 6-9 are still lacking. Neither Eggleston nor we found copies of other editions in this range. The same is true of similar gaps below. *Ed. 10*(*b*): 1849, as 10(a) but Claremont, N.H. (Manufacturing Company, S. Ide) 1849, n.v. *Ed. 10*(*c*): 1850, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv\]. *Copy*: NY. – Tenth edition, revised and enlarged. Claremont, N.H. (Manufacturing Company. Simeon Ide, Agent) 1850. *Ed. 10*(*d*): 1850, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copies*: HH, USDA. – Tenth edition, revised and enlarged. Boston (published by Crocker & Brewster), Claremont, N.H. (Simeon Ide) 1850. *Ed. 17*(*a*): 1851, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copies*: MO, NY. – Seventeenth edition, revised and enlarged. Boston (published by Crocker & Brewster), Claremont, N.H. (Simeon Ide) 1851. *Ed. 17b*: 1851: as 17(a) but: Claremont, N.H. (Manufacturing Company) 1851, n.v. *Ed. 23*(*1*): 1851, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copy*: USDA. – Twenty-third edition, revised and enlarged. Boston (published by Crocker & Brewster), Claremont, N.H. (Simeon Ide) 1851. *Ed. 23*(*b*): 1851, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copies*: HH, NY. – Twenty-third edition, revised and enlarged. Claremont, N.H. (Manufacturing Company. Simeon Ide, Agent) 1851. *Ed. 29*(*a*): 1853, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copies*: HH, NY. – Twenty-ninth edition, revised and enlarged. Boston (published by Crocker & Brewster). Claremont, N.H. (Simeon Ide) 1853. *Ed. 29*(*b*): 1853, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copies*: MO, USDA. – Claremont, N.H. (Manufacturing Company, Simeon Ide, Agent) 1853. *Ed. 35*(*a*): 1854, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copies*: HH, MICH, USDA. – Boston (published by Crocker & Brewster), Claremont, N.H. (Simeon Ide) 1854. *Ed. 35*(*b*): 1854, as ed. 35(a) but with: Claremont, N.H. (Manufacturing Company, S. Ide) imprint. *Copy*: MO. *Ed. 41*(*a*): 1855, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY, USDA. – Forty-first edition, revised and enlarged. Boston (published by Crocker & Brewster), Claremont, N.H. (Simeon Ide) 1855. *Ed. 41*(*b*): 1855, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copies*: MICH, NY. – Forty-first edition, revised and enlarged. Claremont, N.H. (Manufacturing Company, Simeon Ide, Agent) Boston (Crocker & Brewster) 1855. *Ed. 41*(*c*): 1856, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copies*: MICH, NY. – Forty-first edition, revised and enlarged. Boston (published by Crocker & Brewster), Claremont, N.H. (Simeon Ide) 1856. *Ed. 41*(*d*): 1856, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY, USDA. – Forty-first edition, revised and enlarged. Claremont, N.H. (Manufacturing Company, Simeon Ide, Agent), Boston (Crocker & Brewster) 1856. *Ed. 41*(*e*): 1866, as 41(f) but with date 1866 (n.v.). *Ed. 41*(*f*): 1868, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645. *Copies*: HH, MO. – Forty-first edition, revised and enlarged. New York (published by A.S. Barnes & Co.,...) 1868. *Ed. 41*(*g*): 1869, as 41(f) but with date 1869 (n.v.); also with date 1873 (*copy*: MO). *Ed. 41*(*h*): s.d., p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copy*: NY. – Forty-first edition, revised and enlarged. Troy, N.Y. (Merriam, Moore and Co.), New York (A.S. Barnes and Co.) s.d. *Ed. 41*(*i*): s.d., p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copies*: PH, US. – Forty-first edition, revised and enlarged. New York (A.S. Barnes & Burr, Publishers...), Troy, N.Y. (Moore and Nims) s.d. *Ed. 41*(*k*): s.d., p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-645, \[i\]-iv. *Copies*: MO, USDA. – Forty-first edition, revised and enlarged. Troy, N.Y. (Moore and Nims), New York (A.S. Barnes and Co.) s.d. *Ed. s.n.* (*a*): 1860 (p. vi: Mai 1860), p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-174. *Copies*: HH, MO. – Contains only the original part I. – *Class book of botany*. Being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants. With a flora \[N.B. not present!\] of all parts of the United States and Canada... New York (published by A.S. Barnes & Burr...) 1860. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*b*): 1861 (p. vi: 1 Dec 1860), p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY, USDA. – *Class book of botany*: being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants; with a flora of the United States and Canada... New York (Published by A.S. Barnes & Burr...) 1861. Oct. *Ed. s.n.* (*c*): 1862, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-832. *Copies*: MO, USDA. – New York (published by A.S. Barnes & Burr...) 1862. Oct. *Ed. s.n.* (*d*): 1863, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832. *Copies*: HH, NY, USDA. – New York (id.) 1863. Oct. *Ed. s.n.* (*e*): 1864, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832. *Copies*: PH, USDA. – New York (id.) 1864. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*f*): 1865, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY, PH, USDA. – New York (id.) 1865. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*g*): 1866, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832. *Copy*: USDA. – New York (A.S. Barnes & Co.,...), Troy (Moore & Nims) 1866. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*h*): 1866, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832. *Copies*: HH, MO. – New York (A.S. Barnes & Company,...) 1866. *Ed. s.n.*(*i*): 1867, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832. *Copy*: NY. – New York (A.S. Barnes & Co.,...) Troy (Moore & Nims) 1867. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*k*): 1868, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832. *Copy*: NY. – New York (id.), Troy (id.) 1868. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*l*): 1869, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832. *Copies*: HH, NY, USDA. – New York (id.), Troy (id.) 1869. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*m*): 1870: p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832. *Copies*: HH, NY, USDA. – New York (id.), Troy (id.) 1870. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*n*): 1871, as (m), 1871 (n.v.). *Ed. s.n.*(*o*): 1872, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832. *Copy*: NY. – New York (id.), Troy (id.) 1872. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*p*): 1873, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832, *pl. 1-5* (uncol. liths.). *Copy*: USDA. – New York (id.), Troy (id.) 1873. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*q*): 1874, as (p) 1874, n.v. *Ed. s.n.*(*r*): 1875, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832, *pl. 1-5. Copies*: MO, USDA. – New York (id.), Troy (id.) 1875. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*s*): 1876, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832, *pl. 1-5. Copy*: NY. – New York and Chicago (A.S. Barnes & Company), Troy, N.Y. (H.B. Nims & Company) 1876. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*t*): 1877, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832, *pl. 1-5. Copies*: HH, USDA. – New York and Chicago (id.), Troy, N.Y. (id.) 1877. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*u*): s.d., p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832. *Copy*: NY. – New York (A.S. Barnes & Co.,...), Troy (Moore & Nims) s.d. Oct. (reprint of ed. s.n.(l)). *Ed. s.n.*(*v*): s.d. (copyrighted 1875), p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-832. *Copies*: HH(2). New York & Chicago (A.S. Barnes & Company), Troy, N.Y. (H.B. Nims & Company) s.d. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*w*): s.d. copyrighted 1881, possibly reprinted several times), p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-843 \[sic\]. *Copies*: HH, MICH, NY, PH, USDA. – New York and Chicago (A.S. Barnes & Company), Troy, N.Y. (H.B. Nims & Company) s.d. Oct. *Ed. s.n.*(*x*): copyrighted 1881, possibly later issue with different t.p. and imprint), p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-843. *Copy*: PH. – New York, Cincinnati, Chicago (American Book Company ...) s.d. *Note*: For overlooked names in Wood's Classbook see Merrill (1948, 1949). ##### n.18.231. First lessons in botany **Title** *First lessons in botany*: designed for common schools in the United States... Boston (Crocker and Brewster), Claremont, N.H. (Manufacturing Company, Simeon Ide, agent) 1856. **Abbreviated title**: *First lessons bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1856, p. \[1\]-255. *Copies*: HH, NY. ##### n.18.232. Leaves and flowers **Title** *Leaves and flowers*: or, object lessons in botany. With a flora. Prepared for beginners in academies and public schools... New York (Barnes & Burr,...), Troy... and sold by booksellers generally. 1863. Duod. **Abbreviated title**: *Leaves flowers*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1863 (p. 6: 23 Feb 1863), p. \[1\]-322. *Copy*: NY. *Ed. 1867*: 1867, p. \[1\]-322. *Copies*: HH, NY. – New York (A.S. Barnes & Co....) Troy (Moore & Nims) 1867. *Ed. 1873*: 1872, p. \[1\]-322. *Copies*: HH, NY. – Id. *Ed. 1877*: 1877, p. \[1\]-346. *Copies*: HH, MO. – New York and Chicago (A.S. Barnes & Company), Troy, N.Y. (H.B. Nims & Company) 1877. *Ed. s.d*.: p. \[1\]-346. *Copy*: MO. – Id. ##### n.18.233. A sketch of the natural order Liliaceae **Title** *A sketch of the natural order Liliaceae*, as represented in the flora of the States of Oregon and California, with special reference to the plants collected in an excursion along our Pacific coasts, a.d. 1866... From the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, June, 1868. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jun 1868, p \[1\]-10. *Copy*: HH. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1868: 165-174. ##### n.18.234. The American botanist and florist **Title** *The American botanist and florist*: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the atlantic division of the American Union... New York and Chicago (A.S. Barnes & Company) 1870. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Amer. bot. fl.* **Notes** *Ed*. \[*1*\]: 1870 (Bot. Zeit. 11 Nov 1870), p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-172, \[1\]-392. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY, PH, USDA. \[*Ed. 2*\]: 1871, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-172, \[1\]-444, \[445, err.\]. *Copies*: NY, USDA. \[*Ed. 3*\]: 1872, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-172, \[1\]-447. *Copies*: MO, NY, USDA. \[*Ed. 4*\]: 1873, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-172, \[1\]-447. *Copies*: HH, NY, USDA. – Actually simply a revision of the 1872 ed. \[*Ed. 5*\]: 1874, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-172, \[1\]-447. *Copy*: NY. – Id. \[*Ed. 6*\]: 1875, p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-172, \[1\]-448. *Copies*: NY, USDA. – Id. \[*Ed. 7?*\]: s.d., p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-172, \[1\]-149. *Copies*: HH, PH. – New York and Chicago (A.S. Barnes & Company), Troy, N.Y. (H.B. Nims & Company) s.d. Oct. \[*Ed. 8*\]: 1889, p. \[i\]-vi ("Mar 1889"), \[i\]-vi, \[1\]-220, \[1\] or \[15\]-449. *Copies*: H, MO, NY, PH, USDA. – *The new American botanist and florist*... revised and edited by Oliver R \[Rivington\] Willis \[1815-1902\],... copyright 1870 and 1889, by A.S. Barnes & Company, New York and Chicago. Oct. (*New Amer. bot. fl.*), (rev. TBC 10 Apr 1890 as of 1889). – A reissue 1898 is mentioned in Bot. Centralbl. 12 Oct 1898 and Nat. Nov. Nov(1) 1898. ##### n.18.235. illustrated plant record **Title** Wood's *illustrated plant record*, with King's check tablets, for the rapid and systematic analysis of plants. Adapted to any American botany. New York, Cincinnati, Chicago (American Book Company...) s.d. \[1877\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Ill. pl. rec*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1877, (p. \[3\]: 14 Feb 1877), p. \[1\]-21, \[22-23\], 85 pp. of forms. *Copy*: HH. ##### n.18.236. Flora atlantica **Title** *Flora atlantica*. Descriptive botany; being a succinct analytical flora, including all the plants growing in the United States from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River. From the American botanist and florist... New York, Chicago, and New Orleans (A.S. Barnes & Company) 1879. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. atl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1879 (Nat. Nov. Aug(2) 1879; Bot. Zeit. 5 Dec 1879), p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-448. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY, PH, USDA. *Other issue*: s.d., p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-449 \[sic\]. *Copies*: NY, USDA. ##### n.18.237. Fourteen weeks in botany **Title** *Fourteen weeks in botany*... New York, Chicago, and New Orleans (A.S. Barnes & Company) 1879. Duod. **Abbreviated title**: *Fourteen weeks bot.* **Notes** *Co-author*: J. Dorman Steele. *Publ*.: 1879 (Bot. Gaz. rev. Nov 1879), p. \[i-ii\], col. frontisp., \[iii\]-xii, \[13\]-318. *Copies*: HH, MO, NY. *Later issued* as *How to study plants*, or, introduction to botany, being an illustrated flora, p. \[i-ii\], col. frontisp., \[iii\]-xii, \[xiii-xiv\], \[13\]-318. \[1882\], New York, Chicago, and New Orleans (id.) s.d.; further re-issue: 1895 with different pagination (*copy*: NY).