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Jordan, David Starr

educator, naturalist, college president, author, was born Jan. 19, 1851, in Gainesville, N. Y.

In 1872 he graduated from Cornell university; was president of the university of Indiana during 1884-91; and since 1891 has been president of the Leland Stanford Junior university. In 1896-97 he was commissioner in charge of the fur seal investigations. Since 1896 he has also been president of the California Academy of Sciences. He is a noted naturalist; and has published numerous scientific papers and monographs. He is the author of A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States; Scientific Sketches; Contributions to American Ichthyology; and The Factors in Organic Evolution.

JORDAN, MRS. DULCIE [MASON], journalist, poet, was born in 1835 in New York. She is a journalist and poet of Richmond, Ind., who has published Rosemary Leaves, a volume of poems.