David Starr Jordan

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

Biography

Born into a farm family of Gainesville, New York, he entered the newly-established Cornell University as an undergraduate in 1866, and received a master's degree in 1872; he was an instructor in botany at Cornell beginning in 1870.

He then moved to Indianapolis and acquired an MD from Indiana Medical College (1875), after lecturing in 1874 on

The following are named after him

• NOAA research vessel David Starr Jordan [2]
• David Starr Jordan High School in Los Angeles, California,
• David Starr Jordan High School in Long Beach, California
• David Starr Jordan Junior High 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

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)
• 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.