ve
  successively acceded to it.

  In faith whereof, the undersigned commissaries have drawn up the
  present project of additional articles and have affixed thereunto
  the seals of their arms:

          Von Roeder,
          F. Löffler,
          Köhler,
          Dr. Mundy,
          Steiner,
          Dr. Dompierre,
          Visschers,
          J.B.G. Galiffe,
          D. Felice Baroffio,
          Paalo Cottrau,
          H.A. Van Karnebeck,
          Westenberg,
          F.N. Staaff,
          G.H. Dufour,
          G. Moynier,
          A. Coupvent des Bois,
          H. de Préval,
          John Saville Lumley,
          H.R. Yelverton,
          Dr. S. Lehmann,
          Husny,
          Dr. C. Hahn,
          Dr. Fichte.


[_International Bulletin, January, 1882._]

THE GENEVA CONVENTION IN THE UNITED STATES.

The friends of the Red Cross are not ignorant that the list of States
which have signed the Geneva Convention presents a grave and lamentable
lack. One of the most civilized nations of the world, and consequently
one of the best prepared to subscribe to the principles of this treaty,
that is to say, the United States of America, does not appear there.
Their absence is so much the more surprising because the proceedings of
the Geneva Convention have only been, in some respects, the partial
reproduction of the celebrated "Instructions of the American Army,"
edited by the late Dr. Lieber, and adopted by President Lincoln (April
24, 1863), and put in practice by the armies of the North during the war
of secession. More than this, it is remembered that the Government at
Washington had been represented at the Diplomatic Conference of Geneva
in 1864 by two delegates at the debates relative to the Geneva
Convention, but without being furnished with sufficient power to sign
it. [Protocol of the session of August 9, 1864.] These were Messrs.
George J. Fogg, United States Minister at Berne, and Charles S.P.
Bowles, European Agent of the American Sanitary Commission.

It was expected, then, that the 