The Russian system can scarcely bear a comparison with ours; because their Regiments are Divisions. They had a regular system of transporting the sick and wounded upon the North side of Sebastopol, then upon Mackenzie’s Heights, then upon Bakschi-Serai, and lastly upon Simpheropol. [Sidenote: Female Nurses.] The adaptation of Female Nursing to the different systems in the French, Sardinian, Russian, and English Armies has now to be noticed. [Sidenote: Sardinian and French Female Nurses.] The Sardinians had Sisters of Charity, both in the General Ambulances in the Crimea, and in the General Hospitals on the Bosphorus. The principal duties of these admirable women appear to have been the care of the linen and small stores, and the cooking, much of which they did with their own hands, for sick officers and men. These duties were admirably performed. They appeared, besides, to have a certain charge in the wards, the power of giving “_douceurs_,” the administration of extras, the seeing to the cleanliness of beds and patients, and something more precise with regard to sick Officers; but their duties seemed to be somewhat undefined in their relation to the Infirmiers. Whether the Sœur or the Infirmier Major were in charge, to see the duties about the patient properly executed, was rather a problem. This was still more the case in the French Hospitals, where the “Sœur” in the wards appeared more of a “consolatrice” and an administratrix of extras: although, out of the wards, her admirable housekeeping, both in the kitchen and the linen-store, was predominant. The French “Sœurs” were not admitted to the Divisional Ambulances in the front: it was whispered, because of the corruption of the French Intendance, upon whom they tacitly exercised a very inconvenient “surveillance.” They served in all the General Hospitals at Constantinople; and to their admirable services, M. Baudens, Inspecteur-Général en Crimée, has rendered an “_éclatant témoignage_” in his “Mission Médicale en Orient,” published in the numbers of the “Revue des Deux Mondes,” of February 15, April 1, and June 1, 1857. In these French Hospitals of Constantinople, the “Sœurs” appeared to do all the cooking for the sick Officers and that of the extras for the men. I do not think that, in either French or Sardinian Hospitals, the care of bed-sores and such like, which can only be done by women, was sufficiently given to the “Sœurs.” I have heard complaints made of this kind both by Officers and men; and “Sœurs,” both French and Sardinian, have been to me to look at the way in which we treated bed-sores, and to borrow air-pillows and water-beds. There is such a difference however in different Hospitals, in time of war and of peace, &c., that I would not be understood to mean that any of these remarks apply absolutely or generally, but only to Hospitals I have seen.