David Starr Jordan

David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was a leading ichthyologist (the study of fish), educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.

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Monuments and memorials

• NOAA research vessel David Starr Jordan [1]
• David Starr Jordan High School in Los Angeles, California
• David Starr Jordan High School in Long Beach, California
• David Starr Jordan Junior High School in Burbank, California
• Jordan Middle School in Palo Alto, California
• "Jordan River", a stream flowing through the Indiana University campus, and Jordan Hall, the biology building at IU
• Jordan Avenue in Bloomington
• Jordan Hall, a large classroom and academic building on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis
• Jordan Hall, home of the Psychology Department at Stanford University

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 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

• Edward McNall Burns, David Starr Jordan: Prophet of Freedom (Stanford, 1953)
• Alice N. Hays, David Starr Jordan: A Bibliography of His Writings 1871-1931 (Stanford, 1952)
• This article incorporates text from the public domain Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography.