Philippine Typhoon $ 1,150.00 Japanese Famine 245,865.67 Vesuvian Eruption 12,759.25 California Earthquake and Fire 2,856,289.54 Valparaiso Earthquake 12,353.38 Gulf Storm 667.87 Chinese Famine 327,725.43 Kingston Earthquake 5,699.23 Russian Famine 9,000.00 Calabrian Earthquake, 1907 233.60 Mississippi Cyclone 2,767.38 South Carolina and Georgia Floods 942.05 Michigan Forest Fires 300.00 Canadian Forest Fires 1,000.00 Monongah Mine Disaster 3,782.11 Italian Earthquake, 1908 986,283.11 Armenian Outrages 6,000.00 Miscellaneous 75.00 ------------- Total $4,472,893.62 Net proceeds of sale of Red Cross Christmas Stamps, 1908, for local anti-tuberculosis work throughout the country (approximately) $138,000.00 The total expenditure for all administration and executive work during same period, including the cost of publishing 201,000 copies of the Red Cross BULLETIN, was $30,195.15 Expenses of administration two-thirds of one per cent., more than half of which has been paid from membership dues and from the income of the Endowment Fund of $115,000. A meeting of the Emergency Relief Board was held in New York City on Saturday, March 20th, at which nine members were present. There was a general discussion of emergency relief work after great disasters. The Red Cross Stamp and tuberculosis work were discussed informally. * * * * * The War Relief Board held a meeting in Washington on May 7th, at which six members were present. The following resolution was passed, creating a sub-committee on the Red Cross Nursing Service: _Resolved_, That the sub-committee on the Red Cross Nursing Service shall consist of a Chairman and fourteen other members, five to constitute a quorum. The Chairman and five members to be members of the War Relief Board, to be appointed by the Chairman of the Board: six members to be appointed by the Chairman of the Board from a list of trained nurses submitted by the Nurses’ Federation and three persons to be appointed by the Chairman on the recommendation of the Board. The subject of First Aid and Relief Columns instruction was discussed.