 Dr. Lucy Hall-Brown, Brooklyn, N.Y.; John H. Morlan, Bedford, Ind.,
  and Stephen E. Barton, Newtonville, Mass. But the corporation shall
  have power to increase its membership in accordance with by-laws to
  be adopted.

  In witness whereof, we have hereto subscribed our names and affixed
  our seals in triplicate, at the City of Washington, District of
  Columbia, this seventeenth day of April, A.D. 1893.

  Witness:
                   STEPHEN E. BARTON,  GEORGE KENNAN,  }
                   CLARA BARTON,       S.G. HOPKINS,   }     (Seal.)
                   JULIAN B. HUBBELL,  F.H. SMITH,     }
                   P.V. DEGRAW,                        }

  I, S.G. Hopkins, a Notary Public in and for the said District of
  Columbia, do hereby certify that Clara Barton, Julian B. Hubbell,
  Stephen E. Barton, P.V. DeGraw and George Kennan, whose names are
  signed to the foregoing and annexed "Certificate of Incorporation of
  the American National Red Cross" bearing date of April 17, A.D.
  1893, personally appeared before me, in the said District of
  Columbia, the said Clara Barton, Julian B. Hubbell, Stephen E.
  Barton, P.V. DeGraw and George Kennan, being personally well known
  to me as the persons who executed the said certificate, and each and
  all acknowledged the same to be his, her and their act and deed for
  the purpose therein mentioned.

  Given under my hand and official seal, this seventeenth day of
  April, A.D. 1893.

  (Signed.)                            S.G. HOPKINS, _Notary Public_.

Immediately following our accession to the Treaty of Geneva, March 1,
1882, the president of the Red Cross was asked by the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate, to prepare a history of the Red Cross
for publication by them through the government printing office. This was
done, and a book of two hundred and twenty-seven pages was issued,
giving an account of the origin of the organization, the steps by which
it became a treaty, of our own initiation, and not only the exact text
by which our accessio