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All ill, which all 
Prophets or poets spake, and all which shall 
B’ annex’d in schedules unto this by me. 
Fall on that man. Donne. 
A little inventory.—I will give out schedules of my beauty : 
it shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil labeFd 
to my will. Shakspeare. 
SCHEELTN Calcaire, in Mineralogy, a name given 
by Hauy to the mineral called tungsten. 
SCHEELIN Ferrugine, a name given by the preceding 
mineralogist to •wolfram. 
SCHEEMDA, a village of the Netherlands, in the pro¬ 
vince of Groningen. Population 800; 8 miles north of 
Winschoten. 
SCHEEPEL, in Commerce, a corn measure in Holland : 
the last of corn contains 27 madden, 36 sacks, 108 scheepels, 
432 vierdevats : 104,28 scheepels are equal to 10 English 
quarters, and each scheepel is equal to 1649 cubic inches. 
SCHEER, a small town of the west of Germany, in 
Wirtemberg. Population 900; 4 miles east-south-east of 
Sigmaringen. 
SCHEFFEL, in Commerce, a corn measure in Germany. 
The scheffel, holding 2621 French cubic inches, or 3189 
English ditto, is a common measure all over the country, 
and weighs, full of rye, about 82lbs. of Berlin weight. Sixty 
scheffels are equal to 89 English bushels. 
Scheffel is also used for a land measure at Hamburgh. 
A scheffel of corn land is 166 English square perches, or 1 
acre 6 perches. 
SCHEFFER (John), a learned writer, was born at Stras 
burgh in the year 1621. He had, while he was young, 
made himself known by some philological writings, and at 
the age of 30 he went to Sweden by desire of the queen 
Christina, the great patroness of learning. He was appointed 
to the chair of eloquence and politics in the university of 
Upsal, in which he gave so much satisfaction, that her ma¬ 
jesty settled upon him a good pension, which she continued 
after her abdication. To his other employments were added 
those of librarian to the university, and honorary profes¬ 
sor of natural law; and he was likewise a distinguished 
member of an academy instituted for the investigation of 
Swedish antiquities. He died in the year 1679. Many of 
the works of Scheffer relate to classical antiquities, and have 
been published in the collections of Gronovius and Graevius. 
Among these may be mentioned, “ De Militia Navali Vete- 
rum," 4to. In Swedish history and antiquities, he wrote 
“ Upsalia Antiqua;” “ Memorabilium Suecicse Gentis Ex- 
emplorum Liber;" “ De Antiquis verisque Regni Suecicae 
Insignibus;” but the work by which he is chiefly known, 
is entitled “ Lapponia, sive Gentis Regionisque Lapponum 
Descriptio accurata this has been translated into various 
languages. 
SCHEFFER (Henry Theophilus), a celebrated Swedish 
chemist, grandson of the preceding, was born at Stockholm 
in 1710. Having lost his parents very early, he was.taken 
under the protection of his uncle, and after going through 
a course of school education, he was sent to the academy of 
Upsal, where he prosecuted his studies from the year 1725 
to 1733, and applied himself particularly to the mathemati¬ 
cal sciences, under the celebrated Celsius. In 1731, he 
attended the college of mines, and went through a course of 
natural and experimental philosophy. He studied chemistry 
under Brandt, and established a private laboratory of his 
own. He visited the principal mines, and was appointed 
assistant to Von Svab at the gold mine discovered by that 
mineralogist about the year 1738. From this period he de¬ 
voted his whole attention to chemical pursuits, and particu¬ 
larly to the art of dyeing, on which he made a great number 
of experiments. He drew up, and presented to the board of 
manufactures a long memoir on the indigenous vegetables 
which might be collected in Sweden for the purposes of dye¬ 
ing : and gave some striking proofs that silks could be dyed 
with Swedish vegetable productions of a yellow colour, 
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which would not fade in the rays of the sun. He was ap¬ 
pointed, in the year 1740, assay-master in the royal college 
of mines, and in 1748, was invited to Stockholm, in order 
to form some establishments for dyeing. In 1756, he was 
ennobled, and he died in August, 1759. He was a member 
of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, and fur¬ 
nished to its Transactions a great many papers on chemical 
and economical subjects; among which were, “ A Treatise 
on chemical Analysis;” “Observations on dye-stuff’s; on 
sal ammoniac; on ascertaining the specific gravity of tin; 
on potash; on coin, &c.” The chemical lectures of this 
author, which were highly esteemed in their day, were pub¬ 
lished by Bergmann in the year 1776. Gen. Biog. 
SCHEFFLERA [so named by Forster, in honour of 
Scheffler, physician and botanist at Dantzic, who inserted 
many new plants in Reyger’s “ Flora Gedanensis,”], in Bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the class penlandria, order decagynia.— 
Generic Character. Calyx: perianth very small, five¬ 
toothed, superior, permanent; segment awl-shaped. Co¬ 
rolla: petals five, oblong. Stamina: filaments five, filiform, 
scarcely longer than the petals. Anthers roundish. Pistil: 
germ globular-depressed, inferior. Styles eight or ten, round, 
short, permanent. Stigmas simple. Pericarp: capsule glo¬ 
bular-depressed, eight or ten-celled. Seeds solitary, semi¬ 
circular, compressed..— Essential Character. Calyx five¬ 
toothed. Corolla five-petal led. Capsule eight or ten-celled. 
Seeds solitary, semicircular. 
SCHEIBEN (Adolphus), chapel-master to the king of 
Denmark, who, in 1737, began a periodical work called 
Dtr Crtti'sdje ^tusifutjg, or the Critical Musician, which 
he continued to the year 1741. This work, which was col¬ 
lected into one thick volume in octavo, 1745, and printed 
at Leipsic, contains much musical criticism, as well as many 
characters and anecdotes of the great musicians who had then 
distinguished themselves throughout Europe. 
SCHEIBENBERG, a small town of Saxony; 18 miles 
south of Chemnitz, with 1200 inhabitants. To the north 
of the town is a steep mountain, with basalt columns. 
SCHEIBS, a large village of Lower Austria, on the east 
bank of the Erlaf; 23 miles west-south-west of St. Polten. 
SCHEICH ALI, the name of a station in Arabia, where 
the caravans stop on the way from Egypt to Mecca; 12 miles 
west of Akaba. 
SCHEICH ZAIAR, a pretty large village of Upper 
Egypt, on the western bank of the Nile; 15 miles south of 
Bebe. 
SCHEIDE, a large village of Saxony, in the circle of the 
Erzgebirge, near Markersbach. 
SCHE1DEGG, a great mountain of Switzerland, be¬ 
tween the lake of Brienz and the Wetferhorn. Its elevation 
above the sea does not exceed 4700 feet; but the view from 
its top is extremely magnificent, comprehending a number 
of glaciers, mountains, streams, and lakes. 
SCHEIDINGEN, a village of Prussian Westphalia, near 
Werl, remarkable only for an action fought here between 
the French and Hanoverians, in 1761. 
SCHEIDT (Christian Lewis), known by the name of Schei- 
dius, member of the Academy of Sciences at Gottingen, 
was born in 1709. He studied at the university of Altdorf, 
w'here he applied, with great diligence, to jurisprudence and 
history, which he pursued still farther at Strasburgh. After 
this he engaged as private tutor to some persons, and travelled 
through different countries on the continent. In 1737, at 
the dedication of the new university of Gottingen, he ob¬ 
tained the degree of doctor of laws; and in the following 
year he was appointed extraordinary professor of jurispru¬ 
dence. In 1739, he was appointed professor in the univer¬ 
sity of Copenhagen. After this he was made professor of the 
laws of nature and nations, and in 1743 was nominated a 
counsellor of justice. He was now appointed by Christian 
IV. preceptor to the crown-prince. In 1748, he was recalled 
to Hanover, to fill the place of Gruber, who had been his¬ 
torian and librarian to the’house of Hanover, and imme¬ 
diately 
