War's Aftermath. A Preliminary Study of the Eugenics of War as Illustrated by the Civil War of the United States and the Late Wars in the Balkans

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914. First edition.

1914 JORDANS' EUGENIC ARGUMENT THAT IN MODERN WAR, THE STRONG ARE KILLED AND WEAK SURVIVE. 12 x 19 cm hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, i-xxx, [1], 104 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve.

DAVID STARR JORDAN (1851 - 1931) was an American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and was the founding president of Stanford University. In 1925 Jordan was an expert witness for the defense in the Scopes Trial. That same year, he was a listed member in the Bohemian Club and the University Club in San Francisco. Jordan served as a Director of the Sierra Club from 1892 to 1903. He served as a member of the initial board of trustees of the Human Betterment Foundation, a eugenics organization established in Pasadena, California, in 1928 to compile and distribute information about compulsory sterilization legislation in the United States, for the purposes of eugenics.

HARVEY ERNEST JORDAN (1878-1963) was anatomist and eugenicist. assistant in biology, Lehigh University, and assistant in histology and embryology, Cornell University Medical College. He joined the embryology staff of Brooklyn Academy Arts and Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor, and Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. He was also Investigator at Carnegie Institution Biological Station, Dry Tortugas, Florida, and Investigator at Carnegie Institution Biological Station, Montego Bay, Jamaica. He was Professor of Anatomy and Dean, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, 1939-1949.