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 sex, but who was slowly brought to realise that legislation would not be established on its true basis until women had the same power of voting as men.

The first meeting called to consider the formation of an International Women's Suffrage Alliance was held at Washington, D.C., in February, 1902. At this conference six National Women's Suffrage Associations were represented, viz., Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, and the United States of America. Delegates were also present from countries where no National Suffrage Associations existed at that time—Australia, Chili, and Russia. A temporary International Committee was formed. This committee met in Berlin in 1904, when the International Women's Suffrage Alliance was established. At this meeting seven countries were represented—Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the United States of America. Visitors also attended from Austria, Hungary, New Zealand, and Switzerland. The third Conference was held in Copenhagen, when delegates from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Russia, and Sweden were present. Besides these many fraternal delegates attended representing Councils of women of different nations—the National Council or Frenchwomen, the Finnish Women's Association, and the Georgian Women's League of Equal Rights. The chief feature of interest in this Convention was the presence of Alexandra Gripenberg, representing the newly-enfranchised women of Finland, and of Mdlle. Mirovitch, the representative of the Russian