> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 122](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333261) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9030-1) LSID 9030-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1452994) QID Q1452994 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Scheer, Friedrich (Frederick) (1792-1868), German (Swedish-Pommeranian born, from the island of Rügen) merchant and botanist; settled in England as city merchant in London, living for many years on Kew Green, ultimately at Northfleet, Kent; active supporter of the continuation of Kew Gardens in 1839/1840. **Abbreviated name**: *Scheer* \[standard form in IPNI: *Scheer*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown; the material described by Scheer in [[Collection B|B]].C. Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald 1852-1857, is at [[Collection BM|BM]] (see TL-1/p. 441). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 223 (d. Dec 1868); BB p. 270; BM 4: 1826; Bossert p. 351; CSP 5: 447; Desmond p. 545; Hortus 3: 1203; Jackson p. 412; Kew 4: 617; PR 8136; Rehder 5: 764; Zander ed. 10, p. 711, ed. 11, p. 811. #### Biofile - Allibone, S.A., Crit. dict. Engl. lit. 2: 1947. 1878. - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 214: 316. 1964 (used also pseud. Diogenes). - Hooker. W.J., Bot. Mag. *pl. 4743.* 1 Oct 1853 (*Scheeria mexicana*: notes on S.). - -r., Flora 52: 472. 1869 (brief obit., by G.A.W. Herrich-Schäffer?). - Seemann, B.C., J. Bot. 7: 268-270. 1869 \[obit., on his role in saving Kew Gardens 1839/1840), Gard. Chron. 1869: 964-965. - Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1891: 324-325. 1891 Con Scheer at Kew). #### Composite works Cacteae, in B.C. Seemann, *Bot. Voy. Herald* 285-293. 1856, see J. Britten, J. Bot. 59: 24. 1921. #### Eponymy *Scheeria* B.C. Seemann (1853). ### Publications ##### n.10.513a. Kew and its Gardens **Title** *Kew and its Gardens*:... London B. Steill,... 1840. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Kew Gard.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1840 (p. vi: Mar 1840), p. \[i\], \[v\]-vi, \[7\]-69, \[70\]. *Copy*: B-S (p. iii-iv cut away), Yale.