Stories by David Starr Jordan

Sharks

Most Sharks Are Not Man Eaters, But Efforts to Whitewash the Man-Eating Reputation of the Fierce Great White Shark Are a Total Failure

Mikimoto and the Culture Pearl

Culture Pearls Show no Difference in Color, Form or Substance from the Native Pearl. How the Japanese Pearl King Grows them by the Millions

Fishes that Can Shock You

Electric Rays, Electric Eels, Electric Catfish and Some Other Fishes Deliver Strong Electric Shocks. How the Electricity Is Generated Is Not Yet Thoroughly Established

Cold Lights of the Sea

Fishes Which Inhabit Great Depths Carry Their Own Lanterns

Malaria and the Mosquito Fish

A Plan to Exterminate Malaria by Means of a Fish that Eats Malaria-carrying Mosquitos

Darwinism Fifty Years After

The Biological Lesson of Evolution

The Fishes of the Deep Sea

Strange life forms near the ocean's bottom

The Fish-Fauna of Japan—With Observations on the Distribution of Fishes