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Rh Knight of the White Elephant and of the Order of Orange and Nassau.

Professor Gore married Lilian van Sparrendahl, July 20, 1889, and has one child. He is a member of the Baptist church. He is also a member of the Anthropological society and of the Cosmos club of Washington; past-president of the Philosophical society of Washington, and secretary of the Metrological society. In his career and character the influence of his loving and careful mother, and his early taste for scientific studies, were among the strongest influences in awakening an ambition to make his mark in life. As a boy he found recreation in useful reading. As a man he has been an incessant worker, taking no vacations, and seeking enjoyment only in change of labor. His leisure hours have been largely employed in literary composition, in the line of his college work. He is the author of "Elements of Geodesy," 1884; "History of Geodesy," 1886 "Bibliography of Geodesy," 1889; "Elements of Geometry," 1898 and "Elements of Geography"; "Holland as seen by an American," 1898; "Dutch Art as seen by a Layman," 1902; "The Legionnaires of France," 1903; "The Political Parties of Germany," 1903. He has also edited various German texts, and a German "Science Reader," and has contributed many articles to American and European magazines.