> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 551](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333690) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9544-1) LSID 9544-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21339496) QID Q21339496 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sharp, Aaron John \["Jack"\] (1904-x), American botanist; MS Univ. Oklahoma 1929; Dr. phil. Ohio State Univ. 1938; instructor in botany, University of Tennessee 1929-1937; professor of botany ib. 1937-1965; alumni distinguished service professor 1965-x; curator of the herbarium 1949-1967. **Abbreviated name**: *Sharp* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sharp*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection TENN|TENN]]; other material at [[Collection ALTA|ALTA]], [[Collection BUF|BUF]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection DPU|DPU]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection FLAS|FLAS]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection GRI|GRI]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection HIRO|HIRO]], [[Collection LAF|LAF]], [[Collection LCU|LCU]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MEXU|MEXU]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MSC|MSC]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NCU|NCU]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PAC|PAC]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection WCUH|WCUH]], [[Collection WIS|WIS]], [[Collection WS|WS]], [[Collection WTU|WTU]]. – The types of publication before 1934 at [[Collection TENN|TENN]] no longer extant. – *Field notes* at [[Collection TENN|TENN]]; *letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 265 (b. 29 Jul 1904); Biol.-Dokum. 16: 8645; GR p. 245; IH 1 (ed. 1): 50, (ed. 2): 67, (ed. 3): 83, (ed. 4): 90, (ed. 5): 92, (ed. 6): 134, (ed. 7): 138; Langman p. 696-697; Lenley p. 366; NW p. 57; PH 209; Roon p. 102; SBC p. 132; SIA 227, 228. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. 7-14, 1944-1979; J. Tenn. Acad. Sci. 28: 94. 1953, 36:360. 1961 (retired Sep 1961; will continue teaching and research); Natl. cycl. Amer. biogr. K: 545-546. 1967 (biogr., portr.); Taxon 31: 384. 1982, 32: 162. 1983 (hon. memb. Soc. bot. Mex.); Who's who Amer. 26-42, 1950-1983. - Boone, W., Hist. bot. W. Virginia 177, 179. 1965. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 94, 95. 1969. - Knobloch, I.W., Pl. coll. N. Mexico 63-64. 1979. - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 662. 1985. - Schuster, R.M., Hep. Anthoc. N. Amer. 1: 99. 1966. - Sharp, A.J., Plant sci. Bull. 12: 1-3. 1966 ("The botanist as scientist and citizen"). - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 86. 1981 (arch. mat. HU). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 279, 286, 319. 1937, 6: 297. 1941. #### Composite works - (1) *Leskea* and *Pseudoleskea, in* A.J. Grout, Moss. fl. N. Amer. 3(4) 1934. - (2) Bryological papers reviewed or noticed in *Rev. bryol.* 3(4: 210. 1931, 5: 145. 1933, 9: 151. 1936, 11: 126, 133. 1938, 18: 95. 1949, 23: 256. 1954, 24: 393. 1955, 30: 293. 1961, 32: 309. 1963, 34(1-2): 381. 1966, 34(3-4): 950. 1967, 36(1-2): 354, 371, 381. 1969, 36(3-4): 783, 789, 798, 810. 1970, 37: 412, 999. 1971, 38: 613, 624, 636. 1973, 39: 352, 359, 510. 1973, 40: 295. 1974. ### Publications ##### n.11.860. Taxonomic and ecological studies of eastern Tennessee Bryophytes **Title** *Taxonomic and ecological studies of eastern Tennessee Bryophytes*... Reprinted from "The American Midland Naturalist" vol. 21,... 1939. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar 1939, cover-t.p., p. 267-354, i-vii (index, gloss.). *Copies*: BR, MO. – Reprinted and to be cited from Amer. Midl. Natural. 21(2): 267-354. Mar 1939.