Why Fish Don't Exist

Why Fish Don't Exist PDF Author: Lulu Miller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501160346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Nineteenth-century scientist David Starr Jordan built one of the most important fish specimen collections ever seen, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shattered his life's work.

Why Fish Don't Exist

Why Fish Don't Exist PDF Author: Lulu Miller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501160346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
Nineteenth-century scientist David Starr Jordan built one of the most important fish specimen collections ever seen, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shattered his life's work.

The Philosophy of Despair

The Philosophy of Despair PDF Author: David Starr Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Distillation of the wisdom of the ages looking at mankind's essential feebleness and finitude in an infinite and inscrutable universe. The author argues that neither optimism nor pessimism makes sense, only wisdom in the form of knowing what to do next.

The Blood of the Nation

The Blood of the Nation PDF Author: David Starr Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Animal Life

Animal Life PDF Author: David Starr Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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The Human Harvest

The Human Harvest PDF Author: David Starr Jordan
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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California and the Californians

California and the Californians PDF Author: David Starr Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Assessment of California life and the character of its citizens.

The Call of the Twentieth Century

The Call of the Twentieth Century PDF Author: David Starr Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford

The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford PDF Author: Robert W. P. Cutler
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804747936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco. The inquest testimony of the physicians who attended her death in Hawaii led to a coroner’s jury verdict of murder—by strychnine poisoning. Stanford University President David Starr Jordan promptly issued a press release claiming that Mrs. Stanford had died of heart disease, a claim that he supported by challenging the skills and judgment of the Honolulu physicians and toxicologist. Jordan’s diagnosis was largely accepted and promulgated in many subsequent historical accounts. In this book, the author reviews the medical reports in detail to refute Dr. Jordan’s claim and to show that Mrs. Stanford indeed died of strychnine poisoning. His research reveals that the professionals who were denounced by Dr. Jordan enjoyed honorable and distinguished careers. He concludes that Dr. Jordan went to great lengths, over a period of nearly two decades, to cover up the real circumstances of Mrs. Stanford’s death.

A Book of Natural History

A Book of Natural History PDF Author: David Starr Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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The Strength of Being Clean

The Strength of Being Clean PDF Author: David Starr Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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