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{{short description|American ichthyologist, educator, and eugenicist (1851–1931)}}
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| name         = David Starr Jordan
| image        = Portrait of David Starr Jordan.jpg
| order        = 1st
| title        = Chancellor of [[Stanford University]]
| term_start   = {{start date|1913}}
| term_end     = {{end date|1916}}
| predecessor  = ''Office established''
| successor    = [[Ray Lyman Wilbur]]
| order2       = 1st
| title2       = President of [[Stanford University]]
| term_start2  = {{start date|1891}}
| term_end2    = {{end date|1913}}
| predecessor2 = ''Office established''
| successor2   = [[John C. Branner]]
| order3       = 7th
| title3       = President of [[Indiana University]]
| term_start3  = {{start date|1884}}
| term_end3    = {{end date|1891}}
| predecessor3 = [[Lemuel Moss]]
| successor3   = [[John Merle Coulter]]
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| birth_place  = [[Wyoming County, New York]], U.S.
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1931|9|19|1851|1|19}}
| death_place  = [[Stanford, California]], U.S.
| alma_mater   = {{ublist|[[Cornell University]] ([[Master of Science|MS]])|[[Indiana Medical College]] ([[Doctor of Medicine|MD]])}}
| profession   = Ichthyologist, University President
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* {{marriage|Jessie Knight|1887}}
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| children     = 6, including [[Edith Jordan Gardner|Edith]]
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'''David Starr Jordan''' (January 19, 1851&nbsp;– September 19, 1931) was the founding president of [[Stanford University]], serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an [[ichthyologist]] during his research career. Prior to serving as president of [[Stanford University]], he served as president of [[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]] from 1885 to 1891.

Jordan was also a strong supporter of [[eugenics]], and his published views expressed a fear of "race-degeneration", asserting that cattle and human beings are "governed by the same laws of selection". He was an [[antimilitarist]] since he believed that war killed off the best members of the [[gene pool]], and he initially opposed [[American involvement in World War I]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=David Starr Jordan '72 |journal=Cornell Alumni News |date=May 10, 1899 |volume=I |issue=6 |pages=39, 43 |url=https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/25746/1/001_06.pdf |access-date=June 15, 2014 |archive-date=February 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212130959/https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/25746/001_06.pdf?sequence=1 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>David Starr Jordan ''The Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races through the Survival of the Unfit''. (copyright 1902, reprinted 1910) [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=hfomB9SzXJQC&pg=GBS.PA12 p 12] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030191938/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=hfomB9SzXJQC&pg=GBS.PA12 |date=October 30, 2020}}. The term "race" occurs more than 30 times in the short book. The term "eugenics" is not in there, but the basic concept is described.</ref><ref name= "Abrahamson1976">{{cite journal | last = Abrahamson | first = James L | year = 1976 | title = David Starr Jordan and American Antimilitarism | jstor = 40489774 | journal = [[The Pacific Northwest Quarterly]] | volume = 67 | issue = 2|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40489774| pages = 76–87 [79]}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Jordan was born in [[Gainesville (town), New York|Gainesville, New York]], and grew up on a farm in [[upstate New York]]. His parents made an unorthodox decision to educate him at a local girls' high school.<ref name = "Johnston">{{cite journal |last=Johnston |first=Theresa |date=January–February 2010 |title=Meet President Jordan |journal=Stanford Magazine |url=http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2010/janfeb/features/jordan.html |access-date=2011-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617021134/http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2010/janfeb/features/jordan.html |archive-date=2010-06-17 |url-status=dead}}</ref> His middle name, Starr, does not appear in early census records, and was apparently self-selected; he had begun using it by the time that he was enrolled at Cornell. He said that it was in honour of his mother's devotion to the minister [[Thomas Starr King]] but also due to his admiration for the night sky which he expressed at a young age.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Jordan |first1=David Starr |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/54677 |title=The days of a man : being memories of a naturalist, teacher, and minor prophet of democracy |last2=Jordan |first2=David Starr |date=1922 |publisher=World Book Co |location=Yonkers-on-Hudson, N. Y}}</ref>

He was inspired by [[Louis Agassiz]] to pursue his studies in [[ichthyology]]. In the mid-19th century Agassiz was incomparably influential and trained "nearly all" of the leading naturalists in the United States. Simultaneously, according to historian Donald Yacovone, "His revulsion for African Americans and his insistence on their inherent inferiority knew no limits. The influence of [Agassiz's] damaging ideas cannot be overestimated."<ref>{{cite book |last=Yacovone |first=Donald |title=Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity |publisher=Pantheon Books |year=2022 |isbn=9780593316634 |location=New York |pages=37 |lccn=2021058205 |oclc=1289922588}}</ref> Jordan was part of the first freshman class of undergraduates at [[Cornell University]], where he graduated in 1872<ref name="Cornell University 1922">{{Cite book |last=Cornell University |url=http://archive.org/details/cu31924032502704 |title=Cornell alumni directory, containing the foundation, history, and government of the University; the principal alumni organizations; a directory of the alumni |date=1922 |publisher=Ithaca, N.Y. |others=Cornell University Library}}</ref> with a master's degree in [[botany]].

In his autobiography, ''The Days of a Man'', he wrote, "During the three years which followed [my entrance as a 'belated' freshman in March 1869], I completed all the requirements for a degree of Bachelor of Science, besides about two year of advanced work in Botany. Taking this last into consideration, the faculty conferred on me at graduation in June 1872, the advanced degree of Master of Science instead of the conventional Bachelor's Degree&nbsp;... it was afterward voted not to grant any second degree within a year after the Bachelor had been received. I was placed, quite innocently, in the position of being the only graduate of Cornell to merge two degrees into one." His master's thesis was on the topic "The Wild Flowers of [[Wyoming County, New York|Wyoming County]]".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=na4aAAAAYAAJ&q=%22+I+completed+all+the+requirements+for+a+degree+of+Bachelor+of+Science%22 |title=The Days of a Man: 1851-1899 |date=1922 |publisher=World Book Company |language=en}}</ref>

Jordan initially taught [[natural history]] courses at several small [[Midwestern]] colleges and secondary schools, including at [[Indianapolis High School]].

In 1875, while in [[Indianapolis]], Jordan obtained a [[Doctor of Medicine]] degree from [[Indiana University School of Medicine#Earlier schools|Indiana Medical College]].<ref name="cyclopaedia">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015078229104;view=1up;seq=9 |title=Jordan, David Starr |encyclopedia=The National cyclopaedia of American biography |date=1932 |volume=22 |pages=68–70 |publisher=James T. White & Company |location=New York |access-date=June 2, 2018 |archive-date=November 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104092312/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015078229104;view=1up;seq=9 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Indiana Medical College in Indianapolis opened in 1869, but merged out of existence in 1878.<ref name="Medical College of Indiana">{{Cite web |title=Medical College of Indiana |url=https://www.lostcolleges.com/medical-college-of-indiana |access-date=2023-10-28 |website=lost-colleges |language=en}}</ref> Standards at the college were not particularly high.<ref name="Medical College of Indiana"/> Jordan himself, reflecting on the experience noted that "I was also able to spend some time in the Medical College, from which, in the spring of 1875, I received the (scarcely earned) degree of Doctor of Medicine, though it had not at all been my intention to enter that profession."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=na4aAAAAYAAJ&q=%22was+also+able+to+spend+some+time+in+the+Medical+College%22 |title=The Days of a Man: 1851-1899 |date=1922 |publisher=World Book Company |language=en}}</ref> The following year, in 1876, Jordan taught [[comparative anatomy]] at the college.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=na4aAAAAYAAJ&q=%22was+also+able+to+spend+some+time+in+the+Medical+College%22 |title=The Days of a Man: 1851-1899 |date=1922 |publisher=World Book Company |language=en}}</ref>

Jordan also holds an honorary [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=qqQnAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PP8 |title=Footnotes to Evolution: A Series of Popular Addresses on the Evolution of Life |date=1907 |publisher=D. Appleton |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9SUHAQAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PP6 |title=Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States, Including the District East of the Mississippi River, and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, Exclusive of Marine Species |date=1884 |publisher=Jansen, McClurg |language=en}}</ref> awarded to him by [[Butler University]] in 1877.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=alumni_directories|title=Butler College Alumni Directory 1856-1912}}</ref>

==Career==
In 1879, Jordan was accepted into the natural history faculty of [[Indiana University Bloomington]], where he served as a professor of [[zoology]]. His teaching included his version of [[eugenics]], which "sought to prevent the decay of the Anglo-Saxon/Nordic race by limiting racial mixing and by preventing the reproduction of those he deemed unfit."<ref name = Johnsson2016>{{cite web | url = http://paloaltoonline.com/news/2016/02/19/guest-opinion-the-inconvenient-truth-about-david-starr-jordan | title = Guest Opinion: The inconvenient truth about David Starr Jordan | last = Johnsson | first = L. | date = 19 February 2016 | website = [[Palo Alto Online]] | publisher = [[Embarcadero Media]] | access-date = 2017-03-20 | archive-date = September 22, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200922112710/https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2016/02/19/guest-opinion-the-inconvenient-truth-about-david-starr-jordan | url-status = live}}</ref>

===Indiana University president===
In January 1885, he began his tenure as president of Indiana University and became the nation's youngest university president at only 34 and the first Indiana University president who was not an ordained minister.<ref name="swarthmore.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/CDGA.A-L/jordan.htm |title=David Starr Jordan Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection |work=[[Swarthmore College]] |access-date=February 25, 2008 |archive-date=April 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414053648/http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/CDGA.A-L/jordan.htm |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Indiana University Board of Trustees minutes |url=https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/iubot/view?docId=1884-12-16.xml&doc.view=print&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d1e125&brand=iubot |access-date=March 4, 2025 |website=Indiana University Board of Trustees minutes, December 1884}}</ref>

He improved the university's finances and public image, doubled its enrollment, and instituted an elective system; like Cornell's, it was an early application of the modern liberal arts curriculum.<ref name = "Johnston" />

{{blockquote|It was through studying blind cave fish that the Indiana zoologist David Starr Jordan rose to prominence. A scientist of great charisma, he would lead IU before being chosen in 1891 as the first president of Stanford University. By my time at IU, however, Jordan was locally best known for quipping that every time he learned the name of a student he forgot the name of a fish.<ref>{{cite book|author=Watson, James D.|author-link=James Watson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ibQrWBTELLsC&q=david+starr+jordan|page=44|title=Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science|isbn=9780375727146|year=2010|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing |postscript=; 1st edition, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007|access-date=January 2, 2022|archive-date=January 2, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102165628/https://books.google.com/books?id=ibQrWBTELLsC&q=david+starr+jordan|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

===Stanford University president===
[[File:David Starr Jordan Founding President of Stanford University.jpg|thumb|Jordan as [[president of Stanford University]] in 1913]]
In March 1891, he was approached by [[Leland Stanford|Leland]] and [[Jane Stanford]], who offered him the presidency of [[Stanford University|Leland Stanford Junior University]], which was about to open in [[California]]. [[Andrew Dickson White]], the co-founder and first [[president of Cornell University|president]] of [[Cornell University]], who offered him the position, recommended Jordan to the Stanfords based on an educational philosophy fit with the Stanfords' vision of a nonsectarian co-educational school with a liberal arts curriculum. Jordan quickly accepted the offer,<ref name = "Johnston" /> arrived at Stanford in June 1891, and immediately set about recruiting faculty for the university's planned September opening. Pressed for time, he drew heavily on his own acquaintances; most of the 15 founding professors came either from Cornell or Indiana University. That first year at Stanford, Jordan was instrumental in establishing the university's [[Hopkins Marine Station]]. He served Stanford as president until 1913 and then chancellor until his retirement in 1916. The university decided not to renew his three-year-term as chancellor in 1916. As the years went on, Jordan became increasingly alienated from the university.<ref name="swarthmore.edu"/>

While he was chancellor, he was elected president of the [[National Education Association]].<ref>{{cite news |title=David Starr Jordan |url=https://archive.org/stream/independen79v80newy#page/n77/mode/1up |newspaper=The Independent |date=Jul 13, 1914 |access-date=August 21, 2012}}</ref> Jordan was a member in the [[Bohemian Club]] and the [[University Club in San Francisco]].<ref>Dulfer & Hoag (1925). [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/sr25stan.htm ''Our Society Blue Book''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525053912/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/sr25stan.htm |date=2009-05-25}}. San Francisco: Dulfer & Hoag, pp. 177–178.</ref> Jordan served as a director of the [[Sierra Club]] from 1892 to 1903.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sierraclub.org/history/officers/directors.pdf|title=Roster of Sierra Club Directors|publisher=Sierra Club|access-date=2010-02-02|archive-date=January 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107145205/http://www.sierraclub.org/history/officers/directors.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> He was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1905.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=David+S.+Jordan&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

====David Starr Jordan House====
[[File:David Starr Jordan House.jpg|thumb|David Starr Jordan House in [[Carmel-by-the-Sea, California]]]]
In 1905, he was one of the first professors to build a summer home at the northeast corner of Camino Real and 7th Avenue, on what became known as "Professors' Row" in [[Carmel-by-the-Sea, California]]. He was good friends with Stanford University professor of entomology [[Vernon Lyman Kellogg]], who also lived in Carmel.<ref name="Hudson">
{{cite book|last=Hudson |first=Monica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_o1H74ZxpoC |title=Carmel-By-The-Sea |publisher=Arcadia Publishing|place=Carmel-by-the-Sea, California|date=2006|page=24|isbn=9780738531229|access-date=2023-04-16}}</ref><ref name="Dramov">{{cite book |last=Dramov |first=Alissandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GtRzAgAAQBAJ|title=Carmel-by-the-Sea, The Early Years|publisher=Author House|place=Blomington, IN|date=2012|page=101|isbn=9781491824146|access-date=2023-03-04}}</ref>

===Eugenics===
{{Eugenics sidebar|pre-war academics}}
In 1899, Jordan delivered an essay at Stanford on behalf of racial segregation and racial purity.<ref>David Starr Jordan, ''The Human Harvest'' (Boston, 1907) [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=0UU_AQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA5 p. 5] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407123426/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=0UU_AQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA5 |date=April 7, 2022}}</ref> In the essay, Jordan claimed that "For a race of men or a herd of cattle are governed by the same laws of selection." Jordan expressed concern about "race degeneration" that would occur unless efforts were made to maintain "racial unity".

===Eugenics-based argument against war===
Jordan argued that peace was preferable to warfare because war removed the strongest men from the gene pool.<ref name = "Jordan1906">{{cite journal|last= Jordan|first= D.S.|title=The Human Harvest|journal= Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society|volume= 45|issue= 182|pages= 54–69|date= January 1906|jstor= 983679}}</ref><ref name = "Jordan1915">{{cite journal|last= Jordan|first= D.S.|title=War Selection in the Ancient World|journal=The Scientific Monthly|volume= 1|issue= 1|pages= 36–43|date= October 1915|jstor= 6241|bibcode= 1915SciMo...1...36S}}</ref><ref name = "Jordan1924">{{cite journal|last= Jordan|first= D.S.|title= The Last Cost of War|journal= Advocate of Peace Through Justice |volume= 86|issue= 2|pages= 110–114|date= February 1924|jstor= 20660507}}</ref> He said, "Future war is impossible because the nations cannot afford it."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nye |first1=Joseph |title=Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History |date=2005 |publisher=Longman |page=6}}</ref> As one commentator put it, "Though he found meager evidence to support his preconceptions, he still confidently asserted that 'always and everywhere, war means the reversal of natural selection.{{'"}}<ref name= "Abrahamson1976" />{{rp|page=79}}

Jordan was president of the [[World Peace Foundation]] from 1910 to 1914 and president of the World Peace Conference in 1915 and initially opposed American entry into [[World War I]]<ref name="swarthmore.edu"/> although he changed his position in 1917 after he became convinced that a German victory would threaten democracy.<ref name= "Abrahamson1976" />

==="The Blood of the Nation"===
Soon after it was first delivered, the essay was published by the [[American Unitarian Association]] (copyright 1902) under the main title of "The Blood of the Nation" and a subtitle of "A Study of the Decay of Races Through the Survival of the Unfit." Multiple editions of that version followed over the next few years.<ref>{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |title=The Blood of the Nation |location=Boston |year=1910 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=hfomB9SzXJQC&pg=GBS.PA2 |page=2 |publisher=[[American Unitarian Association]] |via=[[Google Books]] |access-date=June 30, 2020 |archive-date=April 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407123427/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=hfomB9SzXJQC&pg=GBS.PA2 |url-status=live}}</ref>

An expanded version of the essay was delivered in Philadelphia at the 200th anniversary of [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s birth in 1906 and printed by the American Philosophical Society. The following year, an expanded version of the original essay with an embossed cover was published by [[Beacon Press]] in Boston under the new main title "The Human Harvest" and the same subtitle.<ref>Jordan (Boston, 1907)</ref> This new version was dedicated to Jordan's older brother Rufus, who had volunteered to fight in the American Civil War and, according to Jordan, was part of the "'Human Harvest' of 1862."  Jordan's eugenic and anti-war views may have been in part shaped by the death of his brother in 1862 from a 'camp fever,' likely typhoid, immediately after enlisting to fight in the American civil war.<ref name="Jordan 1922 132">{{cite book |title=The Days of a Man |year=1922 |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |page=132 |volume=One |publisher=World Book Company |url=https://archive.org/stream/daysofmanbeingme01jord#page/132/mode/2up |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>

In 1910, the original and slimmer version of the essay was again published by the American Unitarian Association in a "less expensive form to insure the widest possible distribution."<ref>Jordan, ''Blood of the Nation'' (Boston, 1910) [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=hfomB9SzXJQC&pg=GBS.PA2 p. 2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407123427/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=hfomB9SzXJQC&pg=GBS.PA2 |date=April 7, 2022}}.</ref>

In 1915, Jordan published an "extended treatise on the same subject" titled ''War and Breed'' again through the [[Beacon Press]] in Boston.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=V94HAAAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PA619|title=The Days of a man v. 1|first=David Starr|last=Jordan|date=September 4, 1922|publisher=World Book Company|via=Google Books|access-date=October 17, 2020|archive-date=April 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407123426/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=V94HAAAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PA619|url-status=live}}</ref> Here Jordan defines and begins to employ the relatively recent term "eugenics" and its opposite "dysgenics".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=XEVSAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA12|title=War and the Breed: The Relation of War to the Downfall of Nations|first=David Starr|last=Jordan|date=September 4, 1922|publisher=World Book|via=Google Books|access-date=October 17, 2020|archive-date=April 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407123424/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=XEVSAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA12|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Human Betterment Foundation===
After Jordan's death, the [[Human Betterment Foundation]], a political eugenics-advocacy organization that advocated for [[compulsory sterilization]] legislation in the United States, published a newspaper advertisement claiming Jordan as one of its prominent members.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbpe&fileName=rbpe00/rbpe002/0020380g/rbpe0020380g.db&recNum=5&itemLink=h?ammem/rbpebib:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28rbpe+0020380g%29%29&linkText=0 "Human Sterilization Today"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202234616/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbpe&fileName=rbpe00%2Frbpe002%2F0020380g%2Frbpe0020380g.db&recNum=5&itemLink=h%3Fammem%2Frbpebib%3A%40field%28NUMBER+%40band%28rbpe+0020380g%29%29&linkText=0 |date=February 2, 2017}}</ref> The Foundation published ''[[E.S. Gosney|Sterilization for Human Betterment]]'', advocating for legislation that would compel sterilization of the disabled and violent felons, allow for anyone in the public to voluntarily seek medical sterilization, and legalize the use of contraception.

==Role in apparent murder of Jane Stanford==
In 1905, Jordan launched an apparent coverup of the murder of [[Jane Stanford]]. While vacationing in [[Oahu]], Stanford had suddenly died of [[strychnine poisoning]] according to the local coroner's jury. Jordan then sailed to [[Hawaii]], hired a physician to investigate the case, and declared she had in fact died of [[heart failure]], a condition whose symptoms bear no relationship to those that were actually observed.<ref name = "Romney_2003"/><ref name = "Morris_2004">{{cite journal
 |last         = Morris
 |first        = A. D.
 |title        = ''Review of'' The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford
 |journal      = Hawaiian Journal of History
 |volume       = 38
 |pages        = 195–197
 |publisher    = Hawaiian Historical Society
 |year         = 2004
 |url          = http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10524/294/JL38193.pdf
 |access-date  = 2012-12-21
 |archive-date = March 4, 2016
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031406/http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10524/294/JL38193.pdf
 |url-status   = live
}}</ref> His motive has been a subject of speculation. One possibility is that he was acting to protect the reputation of the university,<ref name = "Romney_2003"/><ref name="Cutler2003"/> since its finances were precarious, and a scandal might have damaged fundraising. He had written the president of Stanford's board of trustees, offered several explanations for Stanford's death, and suggested they select whichever was most suitable.<ref name = "Romney_2003"/> Since Stanford had a difficult relationship with him and reportedly planned to remove him from his position at the university, he might have had a motive to eliminate suspicions about an unsolved crime.<ref name = "Carnochan_2003"/> Jordan's version of Stanford's demise<ref>Jordan (1922). [https://archive.org/stream/daysmanmemoirs02jordrich#page/180/mode/2up ''The Days of a Man'']. Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York: World Book Co., pages 156–157.</ref> was largely accepted until the appearance of several publications in 2003 arguing that she was murdered.<ref name = "Romney_2003">{{cite web
 |last         = Romney
 |first        = Lee
 |title        = The Alma Mater Mystery
 |work         = [[Los Angeles Times]]
 |date         = 2003-10-10
 |url          = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-oct-10-me-jane10-story.html
 |access-date  = 2012-12-19
 |archive-date = February 4, 2015
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}}</ref><ref name=Wolfe03>{{cite web | last = Wolfe | first = Susan | title = Who Killed Jane Stanford? | work = Stanford Magazine | publisher = [[Stanford University]] | date = September–October 2003 | url = http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2003/sepoct/features/jane.html | access-date = 2012-12-19 | archive-date = May 14, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110514232103/http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2003/sepoct/features/jane.html | url-status = live}}</ref>

==Retirement==
In retirement, Jordan remained active, writing on ichthyology, world relations, peace, and his autobiography.<ref name="swarthmore.edu"/>

==Lifetime honors and awards==
*1877 Honorary Ph.D. awarded by [[Butler University]]<ref>{{cite book |url=http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=alumni_directories |title=Butler College Alumni Directory 1856-1912 |year=1912 |publisher=Butler University |page=43 |access-date=July 12, 2018 |archive-date=August 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829220859/http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=alumni_directories |url-status=live}}</ref>
*1886 Honorary LL.D. awarded by [[Cornell University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/cam-online-exclusive-faculty-reject-honorary-degrees/ |title=CAM Online Exclusive ? Faculty Reject Honorary Degrees |work=Cornell Alumni Magazine |first=Beth |last=Saulnier |date=15 May 2008 |access-date=July 12, 2018 |archive-date=July 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712091952/http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/cam-online-exclusive-faculty-reject-honorary-degrees/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Cornell University 1922"/>
*1902 Honorary LL.D. awarded by [[Johns Hopkins University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://commencement.jhu.edu/our-history/honorary-degrees-awarded/ |title=Honorary Degrees Awarded |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=2018-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221112951/https://commencement.jhu.edu/our-history/honorary-degrees-awarded/ |archive-date=2018-02-21 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*1909 Honorary LL.D. awarded by [[Indiana University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://honorsandawards.iu.edu/search-awards/honoree.shtml?honoreeID=522 |title=University Honors & Awards |publisher=Indiana University |access-date=July 12, 2018 |archive-date=July 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712085143/https://honorsandawards.iu.edu/search-awards/honoree.shtml?honoreeID=522 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Skepticism==
Although a proponent of eugenics, Jordan was skeptical of certain other [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] claims. He coined the term "sciosophy" to describe the "systematized ignorance" of the pseudoscientist.<ref name="Gardner 1957">Gardner, Martin. (1957). ''Preface''. In ''[[Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science]]''. Dover Publications. {{ISBN|0-486-20394-8}}</ref><ref>[[Brian Stableford|Stableford, Brian M.]] (2006). ''[[Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia]]''. Routledge. p. 410. {{ISBN|0-415-97460-7}}</ref> His later work, ''The Higher Foolishness'', inspired the philosopher [[Martin Gardner]] to write his treatise on [[scientific skepticism]], ''[[Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science]]''.<ref name="Gardner 1957"/> However, Gardner noted that "the book is infuriating because although Jordan mentions the titles of dozens of crank works, from which he quotes extensively, he seldom tells you the names of the authors."<ref name="Gardner 1957"/>

==Personal life==
[[File:Portrait of Susan Bowen Jordan.jpg|thumb|Jordan's wife, Susan Bowen Jordan, in 1879]]
Jordan married Susan Bowen (1845–1885), a biologist and a graduate of [[Mount Holyoke College]], whom he met at Louis Agassiz's Penikese Island Summer School of Science, in her hometown of [[Peru, Massachusetts]], on March 10, 1875. She died at age 39, after 10 years of marriage, following a brief illness. Bowen was six years Jordan's senior. They had three children: the educator [[Edith Jordan Gardner|Edith Monica]] (1877–1965), Harold Bowen (1882–1959), and Thora (1884–1886).<ref name="Jordan 1922 132"/>

Jordan later married Jessie Knight (1866–1952) in 1887. At the time of their marriage, two years after his first wife's death, Knight was 21 years old and Jordan was 36. They met while he was serving as president of Indiana University. He and his second wife had three children: Knight Starr (1888–1947), Barbara (1891–1900), and Eric Knight (1903–1926).<ref name="cyclopaedia"/><ref name="Johnston"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geni.com/people/David-Jordan/6000000001843182422 |title=David Starr Jordan |website=Geni.com (wiki) |date=January 19, 1851 |access-date=21 June 2012 |archive-date=November 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119045825/https://www.geni.com/people/David-Jordan/6000000001843182422 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Two of his daughters, Thora and Barbara, died in childhood.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Miller|first=Lulu|title=Why fish don't exist : a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life|date=2020|others=Kate Samworth|isbn=978-1-5011-6027-1|location=New York, NY|oclc=1105945963}}</ref> His son Eric died in 1926 at age 22 in a traffic accident near [[Gilroy, California|Gilroy]], California.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Guérard | first1 = Albert | year = 1926 | title = Eric Knight Jordan | journal = Sigma Xi Quarterly | volume = 14 | issue = 2| pages = 55–56}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Guérard |first1=Albert |year=1926 |title=Eric Knight Jordan, 1903–1926 |journal=[[Copeia]] |volume=152 |issue=152 |pages=S1 |doi=10.1126/science.63.1630.327 |jstor=1437277|pmid=17810424 |bibcode=1926Sci....63..327G}}</ref> Eric had participated in a paleontological expedition to the [[Revillagigedo Islands]] and was considering an academic career.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Hanna | first1 = G. Dallas | year = 1926 | title = Expedition to the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico, in 1925. General Report | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/5052 | journal = [[Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences]] | series = Series 4 | volume = 15 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–113 | access-date = January 14, 2018 | archive-date = October 14, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181014024709/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/5052 | url-status = live}}</ref>

==Death==
On September 19, 1931, Jordan died at his home on the [[Stanford University]] campus after suffering a series of strokes over two years.<ref name="ht-1931september19">{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HT19310919.2.20 |title=Dr. David Starr Jordan Dies; Family With Educator As Passes Away: Fifth Attack Ends an Illness of Two Years |newspaper=[[Healdsburg Tribune]] |page=1 |number=269 |date=September 19, 1931 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |via=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]] |quote=David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Stanford university, died at 9:45 a.m. today. A stroke suffered yesterday, his fifth in two years, hastened the noted educator's death. Mrs. Jordan, a son and a daughter, were at the bedside when death came. |access-date=June 1, 2018 |archive-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701055032/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HT19310919.2.20 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Monuments and memorials==
[[File:Jordan_Hall_Stanford.jpg|thumb|Jordan Hall, now known as Building 420, at [[Stanford University]] in May 2020]]

===Geographical landmarks===
*[[Jordan Lake (Utah)|Jordan Lake]] in the [[Uinta Mountains]] in [[Utah]] at {{coord|40.705|N|110.797|W}}<ref name="Cott1990">{{cite book|author=John W. Van Cott|title=Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names : a Compilation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3Pqk9tazU4C&pg=PA207|year=1990|publisher=University of Utah Press|isbn=978-0-87480-345-7|pages=207–208|access-date=January 4, 2017|archive-date=February 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208175326/https://books.google.com/books?id=z3Pqk9tazU4C&pg=PA207|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Mount Jordan]], a {{convert|4067|m|ft|abbr=on}} mountain peak in [[Tulare County, California]], located on the crest of the Kings-Kern divide of the west slope of the Sierra Nevadas at {{Coord|36.41|N|118.27|W}} was named in 1926 in honor of Jordan by the [[United States Geographic Board]] at the behest of the [[Sierra Club]].<ref name="bc-1926feb08">{{cite news |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/california/bakersfield/bakersfield-californian/1926/02-08/page-2 |title=Mountain Peak Is Named for Jordan |newspaper=[[Bakersfield Californian]] |date=February 8, 1926 |page=2 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Jordan commented that it was not the first mountain named in his honor since the first such mountain did not retain his name since it already had a name.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Mount Jordan |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |date=16 April 1926 |volume=63 |issue=1633 |pages=402 |doi=10.1126/science.63.1633.402 |pmid=17817312 |first=David Starr |last=Jordan}}</ref>

In July 2020, the president of the [[Sierra Club]] denounced Jordan and its other early leaders for being "vocal advocates for white supremacy and its pseudo-scientific arm, eugenics." The president also announced, "We will also spend the next year studying our history and determining which of our monuments need to be renamed or pulled down entirely." It is not yet clear how their reassessment would affect the status of Mount Jordan, which the club had helped to name in 1926, or that of other geographic features that bear Jordan's name.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sierraclub.org/michael-brune/2020/07/john-muir-early-history-sierra-club |title=Pulling Down Our Monuments |work=[[Sierra Club]] |first=Michael |last=Brune |date=July 22, 2020 |access-date=October 24, 2020 |archive-date=October 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026034825/https://www.sierraclub.org/michael-brune/2020/07/john-muir-early-history-sierra-club |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Namesake Tree===
The David Starr Jordan "Namesake Tree" at the [[University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa]] Campus Arboretum, an Indian rubber tree, known as ''[[Ficus elastica]]'', was given to Jordan at the outset of a trip to [[Japan]], and planted by him on December 11, 1922,<ref>{{cite report |first1=Frances |last1=Jackson |display-authors=etal |year=1975 |url=http://manoa.hawaii.edu/landscaping/documents/campus_plantings_committee_1975.pdf |title=Papers of the Ad Hoc Committee on Preservation of Campus Plantings |work=[[University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa]] |access-date=May 2, 2016 |archive-date=June 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601202251/http://manoa.hawaii.edu/landscaping/documents/campus_plantings_committee_1975.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> now listed as an Exceptional Tree of Hawai‘i.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://manoa.hawaii.edu/landscaping/plants/collections.php|title=UH Mānoa · Campus Plant Collections|website=[[University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa]]|access-date=2016-05-02|archive-date=May 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514153306/http://manoa.hawaii.edu/landscaping/plants/collections.php|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Fishery research vessel===
In 1966, the fisheries [[research ship]] ''David Starr Jordan'' was commissioned for service with the [[United States Fish and Wildlife Service]]{{'}}s [[Bureau of Commercial Fisheries]]. The ship later served in the [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] fleet as [[NOAAS David Starr Jordan (R 444)|NOAAS ''David Starr Jordan'' (R 444)]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moc.noaa.gov/ds/ |title=NOAA Ship DAVID STARR JORDAN |work=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |date=29 April 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130213210009/http://www.moc.noaa.gov/ds/ |archive-date=2013-02-13 |url-status=dead}}</ref> before it was decommissioned in 2010<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moc.noaa.gov/Decomm%20Ships/ds-index.html |title=NOAA Ship ''David Starr Jordan'' |work=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016083422/http://www.moc.noaa.gov/Decomm%20Ships/ds-index.html|date=1 February 2012 |archive-date=2014-10-16}}</ref> and sold to a private company, who renamed it the R/V ''Ocean Starr''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://calcofi.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=338&Itemid=1111|title=RV Ocean Starr|website=California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigation|date=27 August 2014|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref>

===Schools named or formerly named for David Starr Jordan===
During the early 20th century several schools were named after him or in his honor. However, after 2018, most of them were renamed, as his eugenics activities became well known.

* David Starr Jordan High School in [[Los Angeles]], was established in 1923; in 2020 the name was shortened to [[Jordan High School (Los Angeles, California)|Jordan High School]] to remove the reference to him while keeping "Jordan" as a generic legacy name for alumni.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Blume|first=Howard|date=2020-10-08|title=Watts' Jordan High cuts association with promoter of eugenics but keeps partial name|url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-08/watts-jordan-high-school-name-change|access-date=2020-10-09|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|archive-date=October 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010025310/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-08/watts-jordan-high-school-name-change|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="ladn-2020oct09">{{cite news |url=https://www.dailynews.com/2020/10/09/lausd-removes-eugenicist-from-name-of-l-a-s-jordan-high/ |title=LAUSD removes eugenicist from name of L.A.'s Jordan High: Renaming of campus buildings a growing trend amid racial justice movement |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Daily News]] |date=October 9, 2020 |first=Linh |last=Tat |access-date=October 10, 2020 |archive-date=October 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010005447/https://www.dailynews.com/2020/10/09/lausd-removes-eugenicist-from-name-of-l-a-s-jordan-high/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Jordan High School (Long Beach, California)|Jordan High School]] in [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]], California, established in 1934,<ref>{{cite news |title=School Will Bear Name of David Starr Jordan |newspaper=[[Indianapolis Star]] |date=January 2, 1934 |page=12 |id={{ProQuest|1890057301}} |quote=David Starr Jordan is the name for the high school to be built soon at North Long Beach.}}</ref> was still named for him when the school district last explored its possible renaming in mid-2020.<ref name="lbp-2020aug06">{{cite news |url=https://lbpost.com/news/education/school-renaming-jordan-wilson-lbusd-committee |title=After renewed cry for change, LBUSD reconvenes committee to examine school names |newspaper=Long Beach Post |date=August 6, 2020 |first=Mike |last=Guardabascio |access-date=October 4, 2020 |archive-date=August 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810084158/https://lbpost.com/news/education/school-renaming-jordan-wilson-lbusd-committee |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.gazettes.com/news/education/push-on-to-rename-schools-including-in-long-beach/article_7d8894dc-c45a-11ea-afb8-1f1443d05cac.html |title=Push On To Rename Schools, Including In Long Beach |work=Grunion |first=David |last=Rosenfeld |date=July 12, 2020 |access-date=October 4, 2020 |archive-date=August 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805165549/https://www.gazettes.com/news/education/push-on-to-rename-schools-including-in-long-beach/article_7d8894dc-c45a-11ea-afb8-1f1443d05cac.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Three years later, a Long Beach middle school teacher tried to get the school board to restart the renaming process in October 2023, but nothing resulted from the attempt.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://lbpost.com/news/education/lbusd-teacher-calls-rename-schools-racist-figures-wilson/ |title=LBUSD teacher calls for renewed push to rename schools honoring racist figures |first=Tess |last=Kazenoff |date=October 23, 2023 |newspaper=Long Beach Post}}</ref>
* Jordan Middle School in [[Palo Alto, California|Palo Alto]], California, established in 1937, was renamed in 2018 for African-American memory chip inventor [[Frank S. Greene]].<ref name="paw-2018mar28">{{cite news |url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/03/27/school-board-votes-to-rename-schools-after-frank-greene-ellen-fletcher |title=School board votes to rename schools after Frank Greene, Ellen Fletcher: Divisive, years long debate ends with final decision Tuesday night |newspaper=[[Palo Alto Weekly]] |date=March 28, 2018 |first=Elena |last=Kadvany |access-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-date=November 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102192152/https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/03/27/school-board-votes-to-rename-schools-after-frank-greene-ellen-fletcher |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="sjmn-2018mar28">{{cite news |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/28/palo-alto-middle-schools-to-be-named-after-frank-greene-jr-ellen-fletcher/ |title=Palo Alto: Middle schools to be named after Frank Greene Jr., Ellen Fletcher: Terman Middle School will be renamed in honor of Ellen Fletcher, Jordan Middle will be renamed after Frank Greene Jr., putting end to controversy |newspaper=[[San Jose Mercury News]] |date=March 28, 2018 |first=Kevin |last=Kelly |access-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701030801/https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/28/palo-alto-middle-schools-to-be-named-after-frank-greene-jr-ellen-fletcher/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="go-2017mar31">{{cite news |url=https://gunnoracle.com/12913/news/board-cuts-eugenecist-ties-with-vote-to-rename-schools/ |title=Board cuts eugenicist ties with vote to rename schools |website=Gunn Oracle |date=March 31, 2017 |last1=Ashoke |first1=Sohini |last2=Lee |first2=Amanda |name-list-style=amp |access-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-date=November 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102192152/https://gunnoracle.com/12913/news/board-cuts-eugenecist-ties-with-vote-to-rename-schools/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* David Starr Jordan Middle School in [[Burbank, California|Burbank]], California, established in the 1940s, was renamed in 2021 for labor leader and civil rights activist [[Dolores Huerta]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/burbank-leader/news/tn-blr-me-david-starr-jordan-renaming-20190419-story.html|title=Burbank school board votes to change name of David Starr Jordan Middle School|last=Sahakyan|first=Marian|date=April 22, 2019|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=2019-04-22|archive-date=April 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422133219/https://www.latimes.com/socal/burbank-leader/news/tn-blr-me-david-starr-jordan-renaming-20190419-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://myburbank.com/jordan-renamed-to-dolores-huerta-middle-school/ |title=Jordan Renamed To Dolores Huerta Middle School |first=Lisa |last=Paredes |date=March 5, 2021 |work=My Burbank |access-date=March 14, 2021 |archive-date=March 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311063855/https://myburbank.com/jordan-renamed-to-dolores-huerta-middle-school/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Campus buildings===
Since Jordan was closely associated with both [[Indiana University]] and [[Stanford University]], both schools named buildings and other campus features after him. However, as his reputation became more controversial in the 2020s, they acted to remove Jordan's name from their respective campuses.

====Stanford University====
Stanford honored its former president in 1917 by renaming its zoology building, built in 1899, to Jordan Hall.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2IEjAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA6 |title=Annual Report of the President of the University for the Twenty Sixth Academic Year ending July 31st, 1917 |publisher=Stanford University |year=1917 |via=[[Google Books]] |access-date=July 9, 2018 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424213257/https://books.google.com/books?id=2IEjAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA6 |url-status=live}}</ref> Other campus features were named Jordan Quad, Jordan Modulars, and Jordan Way. In October 2020 the Stanford Board of Trustees voted unanimously, on the recommendation of an advisory committee, to remove Jordan's name from all four facilities. The former Jordan Hall was to be referred to as Building 420 until a permanent name could be selected sometime the following year. Stanford President [[Marc Tessier-Lavigne]] was charged to rename Jordan Quad and Jordan Modulars; however, Tessier-Lavigne was not able to accomplish this task before he left Stanford in 2023. The advisory committee also recommended that the renaming of Jordan Way, a street on the medical campus, "may take place during the course of ongoing construction and planning."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.stanford.edu/2020/10/07/jordan-agassiz/ |title=Stanford will rename campus spaces named for David Starr Jordan and relocate statue depicting Louis Agassiz: President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and the Board of Trustees approved a campus committee's recommendation both to remove Jordan's name from campus spaces and to take steps to make his multifaceted history better known. Stanford also will relocate a statue of Agassiz. |work=Stanford News |first=Chris |last=Peacock |date=October 7, 2020 |access-date=October 16, 2020 |archive-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015170747/https://news.stanford.edu/2020/10/07/jordan-agassiz/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/10/07/stanford-to-rename-spaces-honoring-david-starr-jordan-founding-president-and-noted-eugenicist/ |title=Stanford to rename spaces honoring David Starr Jordan, founding president and noted eugenicist: Statue of Jordan's mentor Louis Agassiz also to be relocated |first1=Michael |last1=Espinosa |first2=Benjamin |last2=Zaidel |date=October 7, 2020 |access-date=October 16, 2020 |archive-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015213823/https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/10/07/stanford-to-rename-spaces-honoring-david-starr-jordan-founding-president-and-noted-eugenicist/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="stanford report">{{cite report |url=https://campusnames.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2020/10/Jordan-report.pdf |title=Reports of the Advisory Committee on renaming Jordan Hall and removing the statue of Louis Agassiz |work=Stanford University |date=September 14, 2020 |access-date=October 16, 2020 |archive-date=October 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014132725/https://campusnames.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2020/10/Jordan-report.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>

====Indiana University====
When Indiana University built a new building for its biology department in 1956, the building was named in honor of Jordan, its former president and biology faculty member.<ref name="palladium-item-1956jun04">{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/251859135/ |title=To Dedicate New IU Biology Hall Friday |newspaper=[[Palladium-Item]] |date=June 4, 1956 |page=1 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-access=subscription |quote=The David Starr Jordan Hall of Biology, a $3,800,000 building to house natural science classrooms and laboratories, will be dedicated Friday afternoon on the Indiana University campus. The building is named for a 19th century Zoology professor who became president of the university. |access-date=June 10, 2018 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140308/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/251859135/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="kimb">{{cite web |first=Clark |last=Kimberling |url=http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/jordanland.html |title=David Starr Jordan Landmarks on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington |work=University of Evansville |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805182602/http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/jordanland.html |archive-date=2012-08-05 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Jordan River |magazine=Indiana Alumni Magazine |volume=18 |date=June 1956 |page=7}}</ref> In October 2020 the Indiana University Board of Trustees voted overwhelmingly to remove Jordan's name from the biology building as well as a parking garage and a "river" (actually a small creek) that runs through the center of the campus. Jordan's name was stripped from these places immediately after the trustee meeting had concluded, and they were given temporary, generic names to be used until permanent names could be selected the following year. Jordan Hall, the Jordan River and the Jordan Avenue Parking Garage became respectively the Biology Building, the Campus River, and the East Parking Garage.<ref name="tht-2020oct02">{{cite news |url=https://www.hoosiertimes.com/herald_times_online/news/iu/iu-board-approves-removing-jordan-name/article_13da1aee-04cc-11eb-a4e0-ff1407f51d01.html |title=IU board approves removing Jordan name from building, river, parking garage |newspaper=[[The Herald-Times]] |date=October 2, 2020 |first=Michael |last=Reschke |url-access=subscription |access-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424213258/https://www.hoosiertimes.com/herald_times_online/news/iu/iu-board-approves-removing-jordan-name/article_13da1aee-04cc-11eb-a4e0-ff1407f51d01.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="wf-2020oct02">{{cite news |url=https://www.wibc.com/news/local-indiana/iu-removes-name-of-eugenics-advocate-from-campus-buildings/ |title=IU Removes Name of Eugenics Advocate From Campus Buildings |website=[[WIBC (FM)]] |date=October 2, 2020 |first=Eric |last=Berman |access-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005111049/https://www.wibc.com/news/local-indiana/iu-removes-name-of-eugenics-advocate-from-campus-buildings/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="IU 2020 report">{{cite report |url=https://news.iu.edu/doc/2020-09-23-jordan-naming-review-committee-report.pdf |title=Report and Recommendations |work=The Committee to Review Namings in Honor of Indiana University's Seventh President David Starr Jordan |date=September 1, 2020 |access-date=October 18, 2020 |archive-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015093722/https://news.iu.edu/doc/2020-09-23-jordan-naming-review-committee-report.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> In August 2021, staff members of the Biology Department sent a petition to the new IU President [[Pamela Whitten]] urging the university leadership to rename the Biology Building in honor of James P. Holland, an African-American IU alumnus, award-winning former faculty member and endocrinologist who died in 1998.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/iu-biology-staff-want-building-named-for-noted-black-teacher |title=IU biology staff want building named for noted Black teacher |work=[[WRTV]] |date=August 27, 2021 |access-date=January 27, 2022 |archive-date=January 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127054605/https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/iu-biology-staff-want-building-named-for-noted-black-teacher |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2021/08/26/iu-biology-department-could-named-black-pioneer-james-holland/8245082002/ |title=Petitioners want IU building named for James Holland, biology pioneer |first=Patrick |last=McGerr |newspaper=[[The Herald-Times]] |date=August 26, 2021 |access-date=January 27, 2022 |archive-date=January 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127054604/https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2021/08/26/iu-biology-department-could-named-black-pioneer-james-holland/8245082002/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Indiana President President [[Michael McRobbie]] requested the University Naming Committee to work with the [[Bloomington, Indiana|city of Bloomington]] to find a name as a replacement for Jordan Avenue, a thoroughfare that is owned in part by IU and in part by the city.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.iu.edu/stories/2020/09/iub/releases/24-president-mcrobbbie-recommends-removal-jordan-namings.html |title=President McRobbie to recommend removal of Jordan namings on IU Bloomington campus |work=IU News |date=September 24, 2020 |access-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003095108/https://news.iu.edu/stories/2020/09/iub/releases/24-president-mcrobbbie-recommends-removal-jordan-namings.html |url-status=live}}</ref> {{as of|October 2020}}, there were calls in the Bloomington City Council for Jordan Avenue to be renamed.<ref>{{cite web |last=Askins |first=Dave |author-link=Dave Askins |date=October 8, 2020 |title=Taliaferro Avenue floated as new name for city street that cuts through IU campus, part of effort to remove Jordan namings |url=https://bsquarebeacon.com/2020/10/08/taliaferro-avenue-floated-as-new-name-for-city-street-that-cuts-through-iu-campus-part-of-effort-to-remove-jordan-namings/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022053139/https://bsquarebeacon.com/2020/10/08/taliaferro-avenue-floated-as-new-name-for-city-street-that-cuts-through-iu-campus-part-of-effort-to-remove-jordan-namings/ |archive-date=October 22, 2020 |access-date=October 21, 2020 |work=B Square Beacon}}</ref> In April 2021, the Mayor of Bloomington created a seven-member task force to investigate possible replacement names for Jordan Avenue.<ref name="ids-2021apr22">{{cite news |url=https://www.idsnews.com/article/2021/04/bloomington-rename-jordan-avenue |title=City of Bloomington to rename Jordan Avenue, create task force with IU |newspaper=[[Indiana Daily Student]] |date=April 22, 2021 |first=Hugh |last=Pebworth |access-date=May 1, 2021 |archive-date=May 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501173734/https://www.idsnews.com/article/2021/04/bloomington-rename-jordan-avenue |url-status=live}}</ref> In September 2021, the City of Bloomington Plan Commission announced that it approved the renaming of Jordan Avenue to Eagleson Avenue while IU is in the process of renaming its section of the street to Fuller Lane pending approval by the IU Renaming Committee and IU's board of trustees. The city planned to complete their street renaming by February 2022. Both new street names honor prominent African-American families who moved to Bloomington after being born into slavery.<ref name="ids-2021sep15">{{cite news |url=https://www.idsnews.com/article/2021/09/bloomington-rename-jordan-avenue-approved-plan-commission |title=City of Bloomington to rename Jordan Avenue after important African American family |newspaper=[[Indiana Daily Student]] |date=September 15, 2021 |first=Cameron |last=Garber |access-date=September 16, 2021 |archive-date=September 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916061138/https://www.idsnews.com/article/2021/09/bloomington-rename-jordan-avenue-approved-plan-commission |url-status=live}}</ref> In December 2021, IU's board of trustees reconsidered their decision to rename the university's section of the street as Fuller Lane by adopting Eagleson Avenue as the new name for the university-owned section of Jordan Avenue.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.iu.edu/stories/2021/12/iu/03-jordan-avenue-renaming-eagleson-family.html |title=Jordan Avenue to be renamed in honor of Eagleson family |first=Beth |last=Feickert |date=December 3, 2021 |work=Indisana University |access-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204064621/https://news.iu.edu/stories/2021/12/iu/03-jordan-avenue-renaming-eagleson-family.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.idsnews.com/article/2021/12/jordan-avenue-rename-eagleson-avenue-iu-board-of-trustees-approve |title=IU-owned section of Jordan Avenue to be renamed Eagleson Avenue |first=Sean |last=Gilley |date=December 3, 2021 |newspaper=[[Indiana Daily Student]] |access-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204064619/https://www.idsnews.com/article/2021/12/jordan-avenue-rename-eagleson-avenue-iu-board-of-trustees-approve |url-status=live}}</ref>

As late as October 2024, the [[Indiana University South Bend]] campus had a scholarship named in honor of Jordan that enables its students to study outside of the United States for a short period.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://students.iusb.edu/scholarships/pdfs/International%20Study%20Abroad%20App.pdf |title=International Study Abroad Scholarship Application |work=[[Indiana University South Bend]] |date=January 17, 2019 |access-date=October 10, 2024 |archive-date=July 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711230452/https://students.iusb.edu/scholarships/pdfs/International%20Study%20Abroad%20App.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Cornell's David Starr Jordan Prize (1986–2020)===
Starting in 1986, the David Starr Jordan Prize was funded as a joint endowment by [[Cornell University]], [[Indiana University]], and [[Stanford University]]. Every three years it was awarded to a young scientist (under 40 years) who made contributions in one of Jordan's interests of evolution, ecology, population or organismal biology.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.davidstarrjordan.org/ |title=The David Starr Jordan Prize |access-date=20 March 2016 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064651/http://www.davidstarrjordan.org/ |archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> The prize was last awarded in 2015 to [[Daniel Bolnick]], a professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.idsnews.com/article/2015/02/iu-stanford-and-cornell-name-jordan-prize-recipient |title=IU, Stanford and Cornell name Jordan Prize recipient |date=February 10, 2015 |newspaper=[[Indiana Daily Student]] |access-date=October 18, 2020 |archive-date=October 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019073041/https://www.idsnews.com/article/2015/02/iu-stanford-and-cornell-name-jordan-prize-recipient |url-status=live}}</ref>

As Jordan's reputation became more controversial over his support of eugenics, and particularly after the removal of Jordan's name from buildings on the campuses of Stanford and Indiana universities in 2020, there were calls to rename the prize. The prize was officially discontinued in 2020 and the endowment funds were returned to their respective universities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/archivesphotos/results/item.do?itemId=P0028543 |title=Front side of The David Starr Jordan Prize |work=Archives Photograph Collection |publisher=Indiana University Bloomington |access-date=2021-03-13 |archive-date=January 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119121559/http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/archivesphotos/results/item.do?itemId=P0028543 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Papers==
Jordan's papers are housed at [[Stanford University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3f59n6bn/|title=Guide to the David Starr Jordan Papers|work=Stanford University archives|access-date=21 June 2012|archive-date=February 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210144936/http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3f59n6bn|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Selected works==
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===Books===
* {{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1876 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9SUHAQAAIAAJ |title=Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States |publisher=Jansen, McClurg, & Company |location=Chicago |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=1159743845 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=9SUHAQAAIAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Alembert Winthrop |last2=Brayton |year=1877 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=tWw9AAAAYAAJ |title=Contributions to North American Ichthyology |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=1111892026 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=tWw9AAAAYAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Charles Henry |last2=Gilbert |author2-link=Charles Henry Gilbert |year=1882 |url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_24793/page/n15/mode/2up |title=Synopsis of the Fishes of North America |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=3175005 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1885 |url=https://archive.org/details/catalogueoffishe00jord/page/n7/mode/2up |title=A Catalogue of the Fishes Known to Inhabit the Waters of North America |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=903236094 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1887 |url=https://archive.org/details/sciencesketches00jord/page/n7/mode/2up |title=Science Sketches |publisher=A.C. McClurg & Company |location=Chicago |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=1474622241 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1888 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=kTs_AQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA1 |title=The Value of Higher Education |publisher=Daily Palladium Book and Job Printing House |location=Richmond, Indiana |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=25109757 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=kTs_AQAAMAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1895 |url=https://archive.org/details/factorsinorganic00jordrich/page/n7/mode/2up |title=The Factors in Organic Evolution |publisher=Stanford University |location=Palo Alto |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=256761270 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Edwin Chapin |last2=Starks |author2-link=Edwin Chapin Starks |year=1895 |url=https://archive.org/details/fishesofpugetsou00jord/page/n9/mode/2up |title=The Fishes of Puget Sound |publisher=Stanford University |location=Palo Alto |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=4855490 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1895 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=L-haAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PP7 |title=The Fishes of Sinaloa |publisher=Stanford University |location=Palo Alto |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=1895321 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=L-haAAAAQAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1895 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000160891 |title=The Story of the Innumerable Company |publisher=Whitaker & Ray Company |location=San Francisco |via=[[HathiTrust]] |oclc=1315926129 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1896 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=6ncsAQAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PP7 |title=The Care and Culture of Men: A Series of Addresses on the Higher Education |publisher=The Whitaker & Ray Company |location=San Francisco |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=1041603588 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=6ncsAQAAIAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Barton Warren |last2=Evermann |author2-link=Barton Warren Evermann |year=1896–1900 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=DrgKCYf-arUC&pg=GBS.PP3 |title=The Fishes of North and Middle America [four vols.] |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington, DC |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=1052833 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=DrgKCYf-arUC free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1897 |url=https://archive.org/details/matkakotiktaleof00jordiala/page/n1/mode/2up |title=Matka and Kotik |publisher=The Whitaker & Ray Company |location=San Francisco |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=3410700 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1898 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011716711 |title=The Fur Seals and Fur-Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean |series=Document / Treasury Department ;no. 2017 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington, DC |oclc=715732228 |via=[[HathiTrust]] |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1898 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=qqQnAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PP9 |title=Footnotes to Evolution |publisher=D. Appleton & Company |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=7391851152 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=qqQnAAAAMAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1899 |url=https://archive.org/details/bookofknightbarb00jordiala/page/n7/mode/2up |title=The Book of Knight and Barbara |publisher=D. Appleton & Company |location=New York |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=645108937 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |orig-year=1899 |url=https://archive.org/details/californiaandca02jordgoog |title=California and the Californians |publisher=A. M. Robertson |location=San Francisco |year=1907 |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=213790638 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1898 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=IttGx3ZAs9gC&pg=GBS.PP5 |title=Imperial democracy |publisher=Women's Education & Industrial Union |location=Boston |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=1189741706 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=IttGx3ZAs9gC free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1899 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=PdGxAr9rDTwC&pg=GBS.PA1 |title=The Question of the Philippines |publisher=The Hicks Judd Company |location=San Francisco |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=11953910 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=PdGxAr9rDTwC free download])
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Joshua Harrison |last2=Stallard |year=1899 |url=https://archive.org/details/truebasisofecono00jord/page/n5/mode/2up |title=The True Basis of Economics |publisher=Doubleday & McClure Company |location=New York |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=654817964 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Vernon Lyman |last2=Kellogg |author2-link=Vernon Lyman Kellogg |year=1900 |url=https://archive.org/details/animallifefirstb00jord/page/n13/mode/2up |title=Animal Life: A First Book of Zoology |publisher=D. Appleton & Company |location=New York |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=551301475 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1900 |url=https://archive.org/details/morallyclean00jorduoft |title=The Strength of Being Morally Clean |location=Boston |publisher=H.M. Caldwell Company |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=697581156 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Barton Warren |last2=Evermann |author2-link=Barton Warren Evermann |year=1902 |url=https://archive.org/details/americanfoodgame00jorduoft/page/n7/mode/2up |title=American Food and Game Fishes |publisher=Doubleday, Page & Company  |location=New York |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=756419416 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Harold |last2=Heath |year=1902 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=2E1KAAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PP11 |title=Animal Forms: A Text-Book of Zoology |publisher=D. Appleton & Company |location=New York |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=701697216 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=2E1KAAAAYAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1902 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=hfomB9SzXJQC&pg=GBS.PA1 |title=The Blood of the Nation |edition=1910, expanded |publisher=American Unitarian Association |location=Boston |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=867059830 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=hfomB9SzXJQC free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1902 |url=https://archive.org/details/philosophyofdesp00jordrich/page/n7/mode/2up |title=The Philosophy of Despair |publisher=Paul Elder & Morgan Shepard |location=San Francisco |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=1126018479 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Vernon Lyman |last2=Kellogg |author2-link=Vernon Lyman Kellogg |first3=Harold |last3=Heath |year=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/animalstudies00jord/page/n5/mode/2up |title=Animal Studies |publisher=D. Appleton & Company |location=New York |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=894291265 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1903 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=IPMIAAAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PA302 |title=The Training of a Physician |publisher=D. Appleton & Company |location=New York |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=22219937 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1903 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009565686 |title=The Voice of the Scholar |publisher=Paul Elder & Company |location=San Francisco |via=[[HathiTrust]] |oclc=1943092 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1904 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000779758 |title=The Wandering Host |publisher=American Unitarian Association |location=Boston |via=[[HathiTrust]] |oclc=656932807 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Barton Warren |last2=Evermann |author2-link=Barton Warren Evermann |year=1905 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=0ic_-KOnAaIC&pg=GBS.PA757 |title=The Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian Islands |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=2545083 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=0ic_-KOnAaIC free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1905 |url=https://archive.org/details/guidetostudyoffi01jord/page/n11/mode/2up |title=A Guide to the Study of Fishes |publisher=Henry Holt & company |location=New York |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=720618 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Joseph Cheesman |last2=Thompson |author2-link=Joseph Cheesman Thompson |year=1905 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=zpsqAAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA231 |title=The Fish Fauna of the Tortugas Archipelago |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=1839009 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=zpsqAAAAYAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Alvin |last2=Seale |author2-link=Alvin Seale |first3=William Edwin |last3=Safford |author3-link=William Edwin Safford |year=1906 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002243807 |title=The Fishes of Samoa |series=Glossary of principal words composing native names of Samoan fishes |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington |via=[[HathiTrust]] |oclc=1833265 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1906 |url=https://archive.org/details/lifesenthusiasms00jord/page/n5/mode/2up |title=Life's Enthusiasms |publisher=American Unitarian Association |location=Boston |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=613986741 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1907 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100553654 |title=The Alps of King-Kern Divide |publisher=A.M. Robertson |location=San Francisco |via=[[HathiTrust]] |oclc=5135202 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |editor-first=David Starr |editor-last=Jordan |year=1907 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008631373 |title=The California Earthquake of 1906 |publisher=A.M. Robertson |location=San Francisco |via=[[HathiTrust]] |oclc=2948216 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1907 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=chpmUAPzFVgC&pg=GBS.PA3 |title=College and the Man |publisher=American Unitarian Association |location=Boston |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=543318 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=chpmUAPzFVgC free download])
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Vernon Lyman |last2=KelloggVernon Lyman Kellogg |year=1907 |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011693067 |title=Evolution and Animal Life |publisher=D. Appleton & Company |location=New York |via=[[HathiTrust]] |oclc=499941701 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1907 |url=https://archive.org/details/fishes00jord/page/n9/mode/2up |title=Fishes |publisher=Henry Holt & company |location=New York |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=1572594 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Alvin |last2=Seale |author2-link=Alvin Seale |year=1907 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=c1FKAQAAMAAJ |title=Fishes of the Islands of Luzon and Panay |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington, DC |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=670213177 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=c1FKAQAAMAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1907 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=0UU_AQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA1 |title=The Human Harvest: A Study of the Decay of Races Through the Survival of the Unfit |publisher=The Beacon Press |location=Boston |isbn=<!--9780824002640--> |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=15615394 |author-mask=1}} (An expansion of ''The Blood of a Nation''.) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=0UU_AQAAMAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=John Otterbein |last2=Snyder |author2-link=John Otterbein Snyder |year=1908 |url=https://archive.org/details/descriptionofthr42jord |title=Description of Three New Species of Carangoid Fishes from Formosa |publisher=Carnegie institute |location=Pittsburgh |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=610513170 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1908 |url=https://archive.org/details/fateoficiodorum0000davi/page/n5/mode/2up |title=The Fate of Iciodorum |publisher=Henry Holt & company |location=New York |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=271178664 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=Charles Frederick |last1=Holder |author1-link=Charles Frederick Holder |first2=David Starr |last2=Jordan |year=1908 |url=https://archive.org/details/fishstoriesalleg00hold/page/n7/mode/2up |title=Fish Stories: Alleged and Experienced |publisher=Henry Holt & company |location=New York |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=441937918}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1908 |url=https://archive.org/details/highersacrifice00jord |title=The Higher Sacrifice |publisher=American Unitarian Association |location=Boston |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=644117415 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Vernon Lyman |last2=Kellogg |author2-link=Vernon Lyman Kellogg |year=1908 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=mqzt-TBivWMC |title=The Scientific Aspects of Luther Burbank's Work |publisher=A.M. Robertson |location=San Francisco |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=1020023402 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=mqzt-TBivWMC free download])
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Robert Earl |last2=Richardson |author2-link=Robert Earl Richardson |year=1909 |url=https://archive.org/details/catalogoffisheso00jord/page/n6/mode/1up |title=A Catalog of the Fishes of Formosa |publisher=Carnegie institute |location=Pittsburgh |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=647586394 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1909 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=7kNIAAAAIAAJ |title=The Religion of a Sensible American |publisher=World Book Company |location=Younkers-on-Hudson |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=613217089 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=7kNIAAAAIAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first1=Charles Frederick  |last1=Holder |author1-link=Charles Frederick Holder |first2=David Starr |last2=Jordan |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=PzECAAAAYAAJ |title=Fish stories alleged and experienced, with a little history natural and unnatural |date=1909 |publisher=Henry Holt & Company |location=New York |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=441937918 |author-mask=}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=PzECAAAAYAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1910 |url=https://archive.org/details/callofnationplea00jord |title=The Call of the Nation: A Plea for Taking Politics Out of Politics |publisher=American Unitarian Association |location=Boston |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=645108940 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Robert Earl |last2=Richardson |author2-link=Robert Earl Richardson |year=1910 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=bfdpy-hiTvwC |title=Check-List of Species of Fishes Known from the Philippine Archipelago |publisher=Bureau of Printing |location=Manila |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=658355323 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=bfdpy-hiTvwC free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1910 |url=https://archive.org/details/leadingamericanm00jordrich |title=Leading American Men of Science |publisher=Henry Holt & Company |location=New York |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=300587325 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1910 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=o6YWAAAAIAAJ |title=The Woman and the University |publisher=Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Company |location=San Francisco |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=778021337 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=o6YWAAAAIAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1910 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29735873 |title=Work of the International Fisheries Commission of Great Britain and the United States |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington, DC |via=[[Biodiversity Heritage Library]] |oclc=1125635326 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1911 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=CO4nAAAAYAAJ&pcampaignid=books_web_aboutlink |title=The Heredity of Richard Roe: A Discussion of the Principles of Eugenics |publisher=American Unitarian Association |location=Boston |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=808257564 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=CO4nAAAAYAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1911 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=7_hOAAAAYAAJ |title=The Stability of Truth |publisher=Henry Holt & Company |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=828339093 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=7_hOAAAAYAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1912 |url=https://archive.org/details/practicaleducati00jord |title=The Practical Education |publisher=Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Co. |location=San Francisco |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=891599628 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1912 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=6p5JAAAAIAAJ |title=The Story of a Good Woman: Jane Lathrop Stanford |publisher=American Unitarian Association |location=Boston |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=1481462598 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=6p5JAAAAIAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1912 |url=https://archive.org/details/syllabusoflectur00jordrich |title=Syllabus of Lectures on International Conciliation |publisher=World Peace Foundation |location=Boston |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=652307347 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1912 |url=https://archive.org/details/unseenempire0000davi |title=Unseen Empire |publisher=American Unitarian Association |location=Boston |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=1481462598 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1913 |url=https://archive.org/details/americasconquest00jord |title=America's Conquest of Europe |publisher=American Unitarian Association |location=Boston |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=559511853 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Charles William |last2=Metz |year=1913 |url=https://archive.org/details/catalogoffishesk61jord |title=A Catalog of the Fishes Known from the Waters of Korea |publisher=Carnegie Institute |location=Pittsburgh |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=610570792 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1913 |url=https://archive.org/details/navalwaste00jorduoft |title=Naval Waste |publisher=World Peace Foundation |location=Boston |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=262829672 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1913 |url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_73264/page/n8/mode/1up |title=War and Waste |publisher=McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart |location=Toronto |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=574211072 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1913 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=AHcNAAAAYAAJ |title=What Shall We Say? |publisher=World Peace Foundation |location=Boston |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=869104803 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=AHcNAAAAYAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=William Francis |last2=Thompson |author2-link=William Francis Thompson (biologist) |year=1914 |url=https://archive.org/details/recordoffishesob00jord/page/n6/mode/1up |title=Record of Fishes Obtained in Japan in 1911 |publisher=Carnegie Institute |location=Pittsburgh |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=670095922 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Harvey Ernest |last2=Jordan |author2-link=Harvey Ernest Jordan |year=1914 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Ve0nAAAAYAAJ |title=War's Aftermath |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |location=Boston |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=285150613 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=Ve0nAAAAYAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1915 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=pqNimSuklngC&pcampaignid=books_web_aboutlink |title=The Foundation Ideals of Stanford University |publisher=Stanford University |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=21500886 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=pqNimSuklngC free download])
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |orig-year=1915 |year=1922 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=XEVSAQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PP9 |title=War and the Breed: The Relation of War to the Downfall of Nations |publisher=World Book Company |location=Younkers-on-Hudson |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=1019453204 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=XEVSAQAAMAAJ free download]) A further extended and updated version of earlier works ''The Blood of a Nation'' and ''The Human Harvest''.
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1916 |url=https://archive.org/details/waystolastingpea00jordiala |title=Ways to Lasting Peace |publisher=Bobbs-Merrill Company |location=Indianapolis |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=826648796 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1916 |url=https://archive.org/details/whatofmexicoabst01jord |title=What of Mexico? |publisher=The Mexican-American League |location=New York City |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=16433936 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |title=World Peace and the College Man |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=AQw5AQAAIAAJ |year=1916 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=3637088 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=AQw5AQAAIAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |title=The Genera of Fishes |url=https://archive.org/details/generaoffishesco14jord |year=1917 |publisher=Stanford University |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=1571824 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |title=Democracy and World Relations |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=dfCy1NkfJ5oC&pg=GBS.PP5 |year=1918 |publisher=World Book Company |location=Younkers-on-Hudson |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=374448 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=dfCy1NkfJ5oC free download])
*{{cite book |last1=Jordan |first1=David Starr |last2=Gilbert |first2=James Zaccheus |title=Fossil Fishes of Southern California |url=https://archive.org/details/fossilfishesofso00jorduoft |year=1919 |publisher=Stanford University |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=809516850 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |last1=Jordan |first1=David Starr |last2=Hubbs |first2=Carl Leavitt |author2-link=Carl Leavitt Hubbs |title=Studies in Ichthyology |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=CPoqAAAAYAAJ |year=1919 |publisher=Stanford University |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=825337 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id= free download])
*{{cite book |last1=Jordan |first1=David Starr |last2=Gilbert |first2=James Zaccheus |title=Fossil Fishes of Diatom Beds of Lompoc, California |url=https://archive.org/details/fossilfishesofdi00jordiala |year=1920 |publisher=Stanford University |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=681100807 |author-mask=1}}
*– (1922). ''Days of a Man'' [autobiography in two volumes]
**{{cite book |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |title=The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor Prophet of Democracy |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=V94HAAAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PR3 |year=1922 |publisher=World Book Company |location=Younkers-on-Hudson |volume=1 (1851–1899) |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=1181355797 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=V94HAAAAIAAJ free download])
**{{cite book |last=Jordan |first=David Starr |title=The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor Prophet of Democracy |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=-5EtAQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PR3 |year=1922 |publisher=World Book Company |location=Younkers-on-Hudson |volume=2 (1900–1921) |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=1181408196 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=-5EtAQAAMAAJ free download])
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Eric Knight |last2=Jordan |year=1922 |title=A List of the Fishes of Hawaii: With notes and descriptions of new species |url=https://archive.org/details/listoffishesofha00jord/page/n3/mode/2up |publisher=Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum |location=Pittsburgh |via=[[Archive.org]] |oclc=964874266 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1927 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005107092 |title=The Higher Foolishness, with Hints as to the Care & Culture of Aristocracy |publisher=Bobbs-Merrill Company |location=Indianapolis |hdl=2027/mdp.39015005107092 |hdl-access=free |via=[[HathiTrust]] |oclc=2572248 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |first2=Sarah Louise |last2=Kimball |year=1929 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=QXppAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PR3 |title=Your Family Tree |publisher=D. Appleton & Company |location=New York |via=[[Google Books]] |oclc=479729 |author-mask=1}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=QXppAAAAMAAJ free download])
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===Selected articles===
*{{cite journal |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1893 |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3508917;view=1up;seq=150 |title=The Educational Ideas of Leland Stanford |journal=Educational Review |volume=6 |pages=136–143 |via=[[HathiTrust]] |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite journal |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1902 |title=Certain Problems of Democracy in Hawaii |journal=[[Out West (magazine)|Out West]] |volume=16 |pages=25, 239 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite journal |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |year=1905 |title=The origin of species through isolation |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |volume=22 |number=566 |pages=545–562 |doi=10.1126/science.22.566.545|pmid=17832412 |bibcode=1905Sci....22..545S |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1447948 |author-mask=1}} 
*{{cite journal |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1906 |url=https://archive.org/stream/pacificmonthly15woodrich#page/378/mode/2up |title=The Trout and Salmon of the Pacific Coast |journal=[[The Pacific Monthly]] |volume=15 |pages=379–389 |via=[[Archive.org]] |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite journal |first1=David Starr |last1=Jordan |year=1906 |url=https://archive.org/stream/pacificmonthly15woodrich#page/n659/mode/2up |title=Pelagic Sealing and the Fur Seal Herd |journal=The Pacific Monthly |volume=15 |number=6 |pages=517–522 |first2=George A. |last2=Clark |via=[[Archive.org]] |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite journal |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1906 |url=https://archive.org/stream/pacificmonthly15woodrich#page/n675/mode/2up |title=Stanford University and the Earthquake of April 18, 1906 |journal=The Pacific Monthly |volume=15 |number=6 |pages=635–646 |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite journal |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |date=1907 |url=https://archive.org/stream/dialliterarycrit43browrich#page/160/mode/2up |title=The Present Status of Darwinism |journal=[[The Dial]] |volume=43 |issue=July/December |pages=161–163 |via=[[Archive.org]] |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite journal |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1913 |url=https://archive.org/stream/worldswork26gard#page/276/mode/2up |title=The Interlocking Directorates of War |journal=[[The World's Work]] |volume=26 |pages=277–279 |via=[[Archive.org]] |author-mask=1}}

===Miscellany===
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1893 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/wilderquartercen00wild#page/12/mode/2up |chapter=Temperature and Vertebræ: A Study in Evolution |title=The Wilder Quarter-Century Book |location=Ithaca, N.Y. |publisher=Comstock Publishing, Co. |via=[[Archive.org]] |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1912 |chapter=Foreword |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/womaninunitedsta00estoiala#page/n9/mode/2up |title=Woman in the United States |editor=[[Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant|Baron d'Estournelles de Constant]] |location=San Francisco, Cal. |publisher=A.M. Robertson |via=[[Archive.org]] |author-mask=1}}
*{{cite book |first=David Starr |last=Jordan |year=1912 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/japanandjapanes02blakgoog#page/n18/mode/2up |chapter=Relations of Japan and the United States |title=Japan and Japanese-American Relations |location=New York |publisher=G.E. Stechert and Company |via=[[Archive.org]] |author-mask=1}}

==Eponymy==
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<!--[[File:Drawing of David Starr Jordan.jpg|thumb|Drawing of David Starr Jordan, by F. Soulé Campbell.]]-->

Numerous genera and species bear the name Jordan.

Genera:
''[[Jordania]]'' {{small|Starks, 1895}}, ''[[Davidijordania]]'' {{small|Popov, 1931}}, and ''[[Jordanella]]'' {{small|[[George Brown Goode|Goode]] & [[Tarleton Hoffman Bean|Bean]], 1879}}

Species:
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*''[[Agonomalus jordani]]'' {{small|Jordan & Starks, 1904}}.
*''[[Agonomalus jordani]]'' {{small|Schmidt, 1904}}.
*''[[Allocareproctus jordani]]'' {{small|([[Charles Victor Burke|Burke]], 1930)}}.
*''[[Astyanax jordani]]'' {{small|(Hubbs & Innes, 1936)}}.
*''[[Coelorinchus jordani]]'' {{small|Smith & Pope, 1906}}.
*''[[Caulophryne jordani]]'' {{small|[[George Brown Goode|Goode]] & [[Tarleton Hoffman Bean|Bean]], 1896}}.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/lophiiformes2/ | title = Order LOPHIIFORMES (part 2): Families CAULOPHRYNIDAE, NEOCERATIIDAE, MELANOCETIDAE, HIMANTOLOPHIDAE, DICERATIIDAE, ONEIRODIDAE, THAUMATICHTHYIDAE, CENTROPHRYNIDAE, CERATIIDAE, GIGANTACTINIDAE and LINOPHRYNIDAE | access-date= 11 May 2025 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}</ref>
*''[[Chimaera jordani]]'' {{small|Tanaka, 1905}}.
*[[Charal]], ''Chirostoma jordani'' {{small|Woolman, 1894}}.
*[[Jordan's tuskfish]], ''Choerodon jordani'' {{small|(Snyder, 1908)}}.
*[[Flame wrasse]], ''Cirrhilabrus jordani'' {{small|Snyder, 1904}}.
*[[Smooth lumpfish]], ''Cyclopteropsis jordani'' {{small|Soldatov, 1929}}.
*''[[Diplacanthopoma jordani]]'' {{small|[[Samuel Garman|Garman]], 1899}}.
*''[[Dusisiren jordani]]'' {{small| (Kellogg, 1925)}}.
*[[Mimic triplefin]], ''Enneanectes jordani'' {{small|(Evermann & Marsh, 1899)}}.
*[[Petrale sole]], ''Eopsetta jordani'' {{small|(Lockington, 1879)}}.
*[[Greenbreast darter]], ''Etheostoma jordani'' {{small|Gilbert, 1891}}.
*''[[Gadella jordani]]'' {{small|([[James Erwin Böhlke|J. E. Böhlke]] & Mead, 1951)}}.
*[[Yellow Irish lord]], ''Hemilepidotus jordani'' {{small|[[Tarleton Hoffman Bean|Bean]], 1881}}.
*[[Brokenline lanternfish]], ''Lampanyctus jordani'' {{small|Gilbert, 1913}}.
*''[[Legionella jordanis]]''<ref>{{cite journal|title=''Legionella jordanis'': a new species of ''Legionella'' isolated from water and sewage
| journal = J Clin Microbiol|date=February 1982|volume=15|issue=2|pages= 290–297
| first1 = W B|last1= Cherry|first2= G W|last2= Gorman|first3= L H |last3=Orrison
| first4 = C W|last4= Moss|first5= A G |last5=Steigerwalt|first6= H W|last6= Wilkinson|first7= S E |last7=Johnson|first8= R M |last8=McKinney
| first9 = D J |last9=Brenner| doi = 10.1128/JCM.15.2.290-297.1982|pmc=272079 | pmid=7040449}}</ref> 
*[[Jordan's snapper]], ''Lutjanus jordani'' {{small|(Gilbert, 1898)}}.
*[[Shortjaw eelpout]], ''Lycenchelys jordani'' {{small|(Evermann & Goldsborough, 1907)}}.
*''[[Malthopsis jordani]]'' {{small|Gilbert, 1905}}.
*[[Gulf grouper]], ''Mycteroperca jordani'' {{small|(Jenkins & Evermann, 1889)}}.
*''[[Neosalanx jordani]]'' {{small|Wakiya & Takahashi, 1937}}.
*''[[Patagonotothen jordani]]'' {{small|(Thompson, 1916)}}.
*''[[Ptychidio jordani]]'' {{small|Myers, 1930}}.
*[[Northern ronquil]], ''Ronquilus jordani'' {{small|(Gilbert, 1889)}}.
*[[Shortbelly rockfish]], ''Sebastes jordani'' {{small|(Gilbert, 1896)}}.
*[[Jordan's damsel]], ''Teixeirichthys jordani'' {{small|(Rutter, 1897)}}.
*[[Jordan's sculpin]], ''Triglops jordani'' {{small|(Schmidt, 1903)}}.
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==Taxa described by him==
*See [[:Category:Taxa named by David Starr Jordan]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book |last=Burns |first=Edward McNall |year=1953 |title=David Starr Jordan: Prophet of Freedom |location=Stanford, California |publisher=[[Stanford University Press]] |oclc=1728813}}
*{{cite journal |last=Dickason |first=David H. |year=1941 |title=David Starr Jordan as a Literary Man |journal=[[Indiana Magazine of History]] |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=345–358 |jstor=27787272}}
*{{cite journal |last=Dickason |first=David H. |year = 1942 |title=A Note on Jack London and David Starr Jordan |journal=[[Indiana Magazine of History]] |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=407–410 |jstor=27787335}}
*{{cite journal |last=Evermann |first=Barton Warren |year=1930 |title=David Starr Jordan, the Man |journal=[[Copeia]] |volume=1930 |issue=4 |pages=93–106 |doi=10.2307/1436463 |jstor=1436463}}
*{{cite book |last=Hays |first=Alice N. |year=1953 |title=David Starr Jordan: A Bibliography of His Writings 1871–1931 |location=Stanford, CA |publisher=Stanford University Press |oclc=878894639}}
*{{cite journal |last=Hubbs |first=Carl L. |year=1964 |title=David Starr Jordan |journal=Systematic Zoology |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=195–200 |doi=10.2307/2411779 |jstor=2411779}}
*{{cite journal |last=Ramsey |first=Paul J |year=2004 |title=Building A 'Real' University in the Woodlands of Indiana: The Jordan Administration, 1885-1891 |journal =[[American Educational History Journal]] |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=20–28}}
*{{cite book |last=Starr |first=Kevin |author-link=Kevin Starr |title=Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915 |year=1973 |pages=307–344, 475–476 |chapter=Chapter 10 – Life Among Best and Truest: David Starr Jordan and the Founding of Stanford University |oclc=14002559}}
*{{cite book |last=Miller |first=Lulu |author-link=Lulu Miller |year=2020 |title=[[Why Fish Don't Exist]] |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1-80533-761-4}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|David Starr Jordan}}
{{Wikiquote|David Starr Jordan}}
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*{{Gutenberg author |id=1566| name=David Starr Jordan}}
*{{Internet Archive author |sname=David Starr Jordan}}
*{{Librivox author |id=9426}}
*[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?filter=&Search=Search&wc=on&Query=au:%22David+Starr+Jordan%22&si=1 Works by David Starr Jordan], at [[JSTOR]]
*[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Jordan,%20David%20Starr,%201851-1931.%22&type=author&inst= Works by David Starr Jordan], at [[Hathi Trust]]
*[http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/president/speeches/951005dieluft.html History of Stanford motto, with Jordan bio info]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170815184122/http://vertebrates.si.edu/fishes/ichthyology_history/ichs_colls/jordan_david.html Biography, Smithsonian website (archive.org)]
*[https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19310608,00.html Cover of ''Time'' magazine, June 8, 1931]
*[http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/findingaids/archives/InU-Ar-VAA1842 David Starr Jordan papers, 1874-1929, Indiana University Archives]
*[http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/findingaids/archives/InU-Ar-VAA2632 Indiana University President's Office records, 1884-1891, Indiana University Archives]

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