Title: A.J. Sharp Diary

Date/Date Range :   1934

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection contains one photocopy of a diary kept by naturalist A.J. Sharp while he was a technician in the National Park Service, stationed at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park from Aug. 1, 1934, to Sept. 23, 1934.

Call number: MS-2442

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

Aquisition Information:

This collection is property of the UT 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], A.J. Sharp Diary, MS-2442. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single folder.

Dr. Aaron Jack Sharp (1903-1997) was an internationally acclaimed University of Tennessee botany professor, who joined the faculty in 1929 and left after retiring in 1974. Dr. Sharp was head of the Department of Botany at the University of Tennessee from 1951 to 1961. He co-founded the UT Arboretum Society. He served as President of the several societies, including 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). Also, Sharp received a Guggenheim Fellow, 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 1991 the Japanese government presented him with the Order of the Rising Sun for educating Japanese researchers and improving academic exchanges between Japan and the U.S.

In research, Dr. Sharp created over 200 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.

This collection contains one copy of a diary kept by naturalist A.J. Sharp while he was a technician in the National Park Service, stationed at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park from Aug. 1, 1934, to Sept. 23, 1934. It also includes a list of the plants he found and their locations in the park.

• Sharp, Aaron Jack, 1903-1997.
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.) -- History.
• United States. National Park Service.