Almira Lincoln Phelps

Almira Lincoln Phelps was an American scientist, educator, author, and editor. Her botany writings influenced more early American women to be botanists, including Eunice Newton Foote and her daughter, Augusta Newton Foote Arnold. Though she primarily wrote about nature, she also wrote novels, essays, and memoirs. The standard author abbreviation A.Phelps is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.