The delegates of a section are elected by the section itself.  They may be either men or women, and their number is in proportion to the size of the section, the maximum figure being eight, as far as voting delegates are concerned, but substitute members and experts may be present in addition.  The following is a list of the fifteen sections represented at Zurich in 1912:  Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, the United States, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Norway, and Finland.  In addition the following countries and dominions sent government representatives only:  Russia, Rumania, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, and the Australian Commonwealth.

A brief account of the Association’s method of doing business may be interesting.  Meetings are held once in two years, in the month of September, different towns in Switzerland being selected in turn for the place of assembly.  The four conferences which I personally attended as British delegate took place in Geneva, Lucerne, Lugano, and Zurich.  There are two plenary assemblies, the first having as chief business, apart from the hearing of introductory addresses, the appointment of the five commissions into which the conference splits up for actual work; the second meeting to receive the reports of these commissions and their recommendations, and decide upon the adoption or rejection of the latter.  The trilingual rule is followed, delegates addressing the assembly either in French, German, or English, as they prefer, each speech being followed by a brief resume in the other two languages from the interpreter.  In the commissions, by an unwritten but generally accepted custom, French and German are the only languages used.  (Latterly the representatives of the United States of America, with the individualistic courage that becomes them, have shown a disposition to rebel against this custom and defy it; but the close of the Zurich meeting left it uncertain whether in this particular the New World will be able to prevail over the Old.) In the dignified speech-making of the General Assembly the recurrent changes of language, if a little disconcerting at first, can be faced with tolerable equanimity; but when it is a question of the quicker verbal sword-play which goes on in the commissions, the member imperfect in the tongues finds his position occasionally difficult.  The sympathies of every humane person must go out to the expert who, having just made a telling expose of his case in French well practised for the occasion, encounters a crushing rejoinder in German of which he can barely follow the general drift.