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cogenic function had thrown some light. M. Bernard had 
been led to acknowledge that the appearance of sugar in the 
liver coincides with the digestion, and he has insisted much 
on this point. If it be admitted, with us, that the sugar is 
introduced into the liver only by the products of alimenta- 
tion, — that is to say, by feculent or saccharine elements, 
this coincidence of the appearance of sugar with the digestive 
period will no longer be surprising. 
We conclude, to sum up, that the liver in man and in 
animals has not received the function of forming sugar, and 
that all the glucose which it contains in its tissues comes from 
without, — that is to say, from the nourishment. 
THE SHIPMENT OE HORSES TO THE CRIMEA. 
Mr. Editor, — Although the subject is becoming “ stale,” 
and certainly not “ profitable,” as I hope to show by the 
sequel, yet it is, nevertheless, no less important now than it 
ever was. The Earl of Albemarle took the trouble, in the 
House of Lords, last week, to call the attention of the 
government to the Hull plan of shipping horses, and al- 
though the superiority of it is so well known, and acknow- 
ledged by those who really understand in what it consists, 
yet it was deprecated by those high military officers, who, at 
the same time that they stated that it was not applicable for 
cavalry purposes, admitted that they had only heard of it, 
and had had no experience to guide them for such an 
opinion. In the discussion which ensued, upon the motion 
of Lord Albemarle, Lord Lucan inveighed against the future 
employment of sailing transports instead of steam-vessels, 
and hoped that the government did not intend to adhere to 
the former conveyance. His lordship stated that the expe- 
rience of the last campaign showed that three weeks on board 
a transport unfitted horses for work for a considerable time 
after their landing, and that many of the horses of the 8th 
Hussars and 17th Lancers, on disembarcation, were found to 
be affected with fever in the feet. The Duke of Cambridge 
agreed with the noble lord in condemning the conveyance of 
cavalry by sailing transports, when steamers can be obtained, 
both for the superior facilities and efficiency the latter 
afforded as compared to sailing transports. His Royal 
Highness adverted to the f Himalaya 5 having been only a 
fortnight on her passage with horses from this country to 
Varna, whereas, the average passage of sailing vessels was 39 
days. Lord Panmure, in reply to Lord Lucan, observed 
that steam-vessels were, no doubt, superior in their conve- 
