Title: Aaron J. Sharp Collection

Date/Date Range :   1937-1988 (Bulk 1937-1965)

Extent: 3.0 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection consists of Dr. Sharp's journals of collected flora in Latin America, Taiwan, Mexico, India, Japan, the Philippines, and several western states of the United States. Also included is biographical information on Dr. Sharp as well as both professional and personal correspondence by Dr. Sharp. Numerous journal articles written by Dr. Sharp are part of the collection. The collection contains Dr. Sharp's handwritten journals as well as those same journals typewritten.

Call number: MS-1569

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

This collection is property of the University of Tennessee's Special Collections Library.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Aaron J. Sharp Collection, MS-1569. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of two boxes.

Dr. Aaron Jack Sharp is an internationally acclaimed University of Tennessee botany professor emeritus. He is renowned for his long continued contributions to the knowledge and understanding of bryophytes. Dr. Sharp traveled to Mexico and Guatemala for the first time in 1944-1946. This was one of several specimen collecting trips to this region. He has collected non-vascular as well as vascular plants around the world. He has traveled to Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Japan, India, Formosa, the Philippines, Taiwan, Tanzania, the Aleutian Islands, Alaska and many places in the United States.

Dr. Sharp was head of the Department of Botany, University of Tennessee from 1951 to 1961. He has served as President of the Sullivant Moss Society (1935), the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club (1947-48), the Tennessee Academy of Science (1953), the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (1961) and the Botanical Society of America (1965).

Dr. Sharp has received many honors and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Alumni Distinguished Professor Award, and the Meritorious Teaching Award of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. The first Bartholomew Award was presented to Dr. Sharp on April 7, 1989 at the 50th annual meeting of The Association of Southeastern Biologists.

In research, Dr. Sharp has produced a wealth of publications, mostly on bryophytes but with occasional articles on fungi, pteridophytes and other vascular plants. Dr. Sharp's first paper on Bryophytes of Eastern Oklahoma appeared in 1929. From this date to the present he has produced an astounding publication record of over 200 publications.

This collection consists of Dr. Sharp's journals of collected flora in Latin America, Taiwan, Mexico, India, Japan, the Philippines, and several western states of the United States. Also included is biographical information on Dr. Sharp as well as both professional and personal correspondence by Dr. Sharp. Numerous journal articles written by Dr. Sharp are part of the collection. The collection contains Dr. Sharp's handwritten journals as well as those same journals typewritten.

• Sharp, Aaron J. (Aaron John), 1904-.
• University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus).
• Botanists -- Tennessee.
• Botany -- Research.