David Starr Jordan as a young man (1868) from
Days of a Man
David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist (the study of fish), educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.
Jordan was born in Gainesville, New York, and studied at Cornell University, Butler University, and the Indiana University School of Medicine.[1] In 1885, he was named President of Indiana University, becoming the nation's youngest university president at age 34.[2]In 1891, he became president of Stanford, serving there as president until 1913 and chancellor until his retirement in 1916.[3]
Although highly regarded as an ichthyologist, Jordan was best known for being a peace activist. He argued that war was detrimental to the human species because it removed the strongest organisms from the gene pool. Jordan was president of the World Peace Foundation from 1910 to 1914 and president of the World Peace Conference in 1915, and opposed U.S. involvement in World War I.[4]
In 1925, Jordan was an expert witness for the defense in the Scopes Trial.[5]
Jordan's papers are housed at Swarthmore College.[6]
Monuments and memorials
Notable works
- Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States (1876)
- Science sketches (1887)
- Fishes of North and Middle America (four volumes, 1896-1900)
- Animal Life: A First Book of Zoölogy (1900), with Vernon L. Kellog
- The Philosophy of Despair (1901)
- Food and Game Fishes of North America (1902), with Barton Warren Evermann|B. W. Evermann
- Guide to the Study of Fishes (1905)
- Life's Enthusiasms (1906)
- Days of a Man (1922) - autobiography
- The Blood of the Nation
- War and Waste (1913)
- War's Aftermath (1914), with H. E. Jordan
- Ways of Lasting Peace
- Democracy and World Relations
- Imperial Democracy
- Shore Fishes of Hawaii
Eponymy
The genera Jordania Starks, 1895, Davidijordania Popov, 1931, and Jordanella Goode & Bean, 1879 are named after him.
Species named after him include:
- Agonomalus jordani Jordan & Starks, 1904.
- Agonomalus jordani Schmidt, 1904.
- Allocareproctus jordani (Burke, 1930).
- Astyanax jordani (Hubbs & Innes, 1936).
- Caelorinchus jordani Smith & Pope, 1906.
- Caulophryne jordani Goode & Bean, 1896.
- Chimaera jordani Tanaka, 1905.
- Charal, Chirostoma jordani Woolman, 1894.
- Jordan's tuskfish, Choerodon jordani (Snyder, 1908).
- Flame wrasse, Cirrhilabrus jordani Snyder, 1904.
- Smooth lumpfish, Cyclopteropsis jordani Soldatov, 1929.
- Diplacanthopoma jordani Garman, 1899.
- Mimic triplefin, Enneanectes jordani (Evermann & Marsh, 1899).
- Petrale sole, Eopsetta jordani (Lockington, 1879).
- Greenbreast darter, Etheostoma jordani Gilbert, 1891.
- Gadella jordani (Böhlke & Mead, 1951).
- Yellow Irish lord, Hemilepidotus jordani Bean, 1881.
- Brokenline lanternfish, Lampanyctus jordani Gilbert, 1913.
- Jordan's snapper, Lutjanus jordani (Gilbert, 1898).
- Shortjaw eelpout, Lycenchelys jordani (Evermann & Goldsborough, 1907).
- Malthopsis jordani Gilbert, 1905.
- Gulf grouper, Mycteroperca jordani (Jenkins & Evermann, 1889).
- Neosalanx jordani Wakiya & Takahashi, 1937.
- Patagonotothen jordani (Thompson, 1916).
- Ptychidio jordani Myers, 1930.
- Northern ronquil, Ronquilus jordani (Gilbert, 1889).
- Shortbelly rockfish, Sebastes jordani (Gilbert, 1896).
- Jordan's damsel, Teixeirichthys jordani (Rutter, 1897).
- Jordan's sculpin, Triglops jordani (Schmidt, 1903).
References
- ^ Papers of David Starr Jordan, CDG-A, Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- ^ Papers of David Starr Jordan, CDG-A, Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- ^ Papers of David Starr Jordan, CDG-A, Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- ^ Papers of David Starr Jordan, CDG-A, Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- ^ Papers of David Starr Jordan, CDG-A, Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- ^ Papers of David Starr Jordan, CDG-A, Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- ^ NOAA Ship DAVID STARR JORDAN at www.moc.noaa.gov
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