title: George Heinrich Adolf Scheele
text: # George Heinrich Adolf Scheele
  
  George Heinrich Adolf Scheele (1808–1864) was a German botanist and 19th century explorer.
  
  He was an expert on spermatophytes
  
  Scheele was the first person to classify Cucurbita texana.
  
  ## California
  
  An important part of his botanical specimen collections are stored in the Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California.
  
  