Excerpt from Under the Red Cross Flag: At Home and Abroad From 1881, when a permanent society was finally createdfuntil 1905, when it was reincorporated by Act of Congress, there was developed neither membership nor organization. Since 1905 the American Red Cross has entered into so many active fields of relief and has so greatly developed, both in organization and efficiency, that a volume devoted to the subject seems due to the people of this country, from whom it receives such lib eral and generous support. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.