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de la Delegation, which the latter published yearly, 

 included on October 1st, 1907, in the list of corporate 

 bodies alone, the names of 310 clubs, societies, and con- 

 gresses, not a few of which possessed a membership exceed- 

 ing 1,000. It is interesting to rapidly pass in review the 

 extremely varied character of the societies included therein. 

 We find, for example, commercial schools, chambers of 

 commerce, merchants' clubs, stenographers, the printing 

 trade, correspondence bureaus, photographic clubs, associa- 

 tions of municipal and other officials, societies of shipping 

 employes, legal clubs, pedagogic and religious societies, 

 officers' clubs, institutes for the deaf and dumb and for the 

 blind, sociological, medical, and health societies, peace 

 clubs, political and graphological societies, touring, bicycle, 

 and automobile clubs, sport clubs, bibliographic societies 

 and library staffs, and finally all sorts of special scientific 

 societies and congresses. Arranged according to nationality, 

 we find representatives of France, England, Germany, 

 Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Italy, Belgium, 

 Norway, Sweden, Holland, Eussia (including Poland), 

 Koumania, Austria (including Bohemia and Hungary), 

 Mexico, Peru, the Argentine, Algeria, Tunis, the United 

 States, Chili, etc. There is also the " academic list," 

 which contains the names of no less than 1,250 professors, 

 belonging to 189 universities, technical high schools, and 

 academies of science, and coming from 110 parts of the 

 globe, extending as far as India and Japan. It may be 

 stated without exaggeration that the programme of the 

 Delegation found an enthusiastic response in all parts of 

 the world and from people of nearly every occupation and 

 profession, many persons and societies expressing themselves 

 in favour of the introduction of an international auxiliary 

 language on the condition that it should not be one of the 

 living languages. 



During the seven years of its existence the Delegation 



