the university 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 alternate explanations for Mrs. Stanford's death, and suggested to select whichever would be most suitable. Since Mrs. Stanford had a difficult relationship with him and reportedly planned to remove him from his position at the university, he might also have had a personal motive to eliminate suspicions that might have swirled around an unsolved crime. Jordan's version of Mrs. Stanford's demise was largely accepted until the appearance of several publications in 2003 that emphasized the evidence that she was murdered. Final years and legacy In retirement, Jordan remained active, writing on ichthyology, world relations, peace, and his autobiography. Lifetime honors and awards 1877 Honorary Ph.D. awarded by Butler University 1886 Honorary LL.D. awarded by Cornell University 1902 Honorary LL.D. awarded by Johns Hopkins University 1909 Honorary LL.D. awarded by Indiana University Skepticism Although a proponent of eugenics, Jordan was skeptical of certain other pseudoscientific claims. He coined the term "sciosophy" to describe the "systematized ignorance" of the pseudoscientist. 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. 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." Children His daughters Thora (1884-1886) and Barbara (1891–1900) died in childhood. His son, Eric Knight Jordan (1903–1926), died at 22 in a traffic accident near Gilroy, California. Eric had participated in a paleontological expedition to the Revillagigedo Islands and was considering an academic career. Death On September 19, 1931, Jordan died at his home on the Stanford campus after he had suffered a series of strokes over two years. Monuments and memorials Geographical landmarks Jordan Lake in Utah's Uinta Mountains at Mount Jordan, a mountain peak in Tulare County, California, located on the crest of the Kings-Kern divide of the west slope of the Sierra Nevadas at was named in 1926 in honor of Jordan by the United States Geographic Board at the behest of the Sierra Club. 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.