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5thly. Under favorable circumstances, saccharine matter 
may be found in the liver of an animal after three entire days 
of rigid fasting. 
6thly. The sugar found in the bodies of animals fed on 
mixed food is partly derived directly from the food, partly 
formed in the liver. 
7thly. The livers of animals restricted to flesh diet possess 
the power of forming glucogen, which glucogen is at least in 
part transformed into sugar in the liver—an inference which 
does not exclude the probability of glucogen (like starch in 
the vegetable organism) being transformed into other ma¬ 
terials besides sugar. 
8thly. As sugar is found in the liver at the moment of 
death, its presence cannot properly be ascribed to a post¬ 
mortem change, but is to be regarded as the result of a 
natural condition .—Transactions of the Royal Society. 
VIVISECTIONS. 
From the “ Appendix’* to the Report referred to in our 
last number, we extract only such matter as has not pre¬ 
viously appeared in our journal. We are, nevertheless, 
gratified at its reproduction by the Society, and shall sincerely 
rejoice if so be we have by co-operation, however feeble, 
been instrumental in bringing about that at which every 
humane mind must exult, the prevention of unnecessary 
cruelty to the lower animals. 
Extract from a speech made by one of the distinguished Vice-Presidents 
of the Paris Protection Society at its general meeting in October last, when 
that Report was submitted for consideration. On that occasion the Marquis 
de Montcalm-Gazon asked “ what had the majority of the Commission on 
vivisection done ? Conceded everything in favour of experiments, and 
refused everything to protection, 
“To our earnest and repeated request for a limitation of vivisection, we 
have received nought but an evasive reply, briefly comprehended in that 
little word, so often the bearer of a refusal, ‘ Impossibility’ The report, by 
its silence, peremptorily denounces all desire to have the abuses of vivisection 
suppressed. A number of our fellow members, perhaps the majority 
amongst us, desire most ardently to see them done away with. On this 
ground I feel compelled to oppose both the tenor and the resolutions of 
the report. 
“ How can we gravely protest against overloading and overdriving, if we 
do not on an occasion like the present raise our voices against the horrible 
torments inflicted on animals, I will not say by real anatomists, but by bun¬ 
glers, apes of science, or by amateurs, deadened to the sight of pain. My 
