Hon. H. KIRKE PORTER, 1600 I street, Washington, D. C. Mr. JOHN C. PEGRAM, Providence, R. I. General CHARLES BIRD, U. S. A., Wilmington, Del. Col. WILLIAM CARY SANGER, Sangerfield, N. Y. Judge LAMBERT TREE, 70 La Salle street, Chicago, Ill. Hon. JAMES TANNER, Washington, D. C. Mr. W. W. FARNAM, New Haven, Conn. NOTE—Attention is invited to the recent changes in the Officers and Central Committee members. The President of the United States has appointed Hon. Huntington Wilson, Hon. Charles D. Norton, Brigadier General George H. Torney and Hon. Lloyd W. Bowers members of the Central Committee to represent the Departments of State, Treasury, War and Justice, respectively. The Executive Committee has elected Hon. Charles D. Norton Treasurer and Hon. Lloyd W. Bowers Counselor to fill the vacancies caused by the resignations of the former Treasurer and Counselor. [Illustration: CONTENTS] PAGE Officers 1 Preface 3 Relief in Eastern Turkey (illustrated) 5 Italy two months after the Earthquake (illustrated) 11 By Ernest P. Bicknell. Earthquake Relief in Portugal 26 A Testimonial to the American Red Cross from Italy (illustrated) 28 Financial Report of American Committee at Rome 30 The Red Cross and President Taft’s Inauguration (illustrated) 33 The Appropriate Insignia of the American Medical Association 40 By Samuel P. Gerhard, A. M., M. D. Story of the Red Cross (illustrated) 45 First-Aid and Relief Columns Department—California, Illinois, New York and New Jersey 47 Tuberculosis Department (illustrated)—Christmas Stamps, Cleveland, New Hampshire 53 Notes 57 Entered at the Post Office, Washington, D. C., as second-class matter. [Illustration: WILLIAM H. TAFT Copyright, Harris-Ewing, ’08.] PREFACE Hardly had our Red Cross work for the Sicilian and Calabrian earthquake sufferers come to an end when a new field for help opened before our American Society. This time it was not some great catastrophe of nature’s doings, but man’s inhumanity to man that brought about the need of aid and as from Macedonia of old again arose the cry, “Come over and help us.” In Eastern Turkey lay this field of suffering, and of the Red Cross help the July BULLETIN gives a brief statement, hoping later to receive a fuller report from the field itself.