CONTENTS 



List of Contributors 



The Role of the Pituitary Gonadotropins in Induction of Ovulation 

 in the Hypopliysectomized Rat 1 



Frances Carter, Marion C. Woods and Miriam E. Simpson 



Discussion by Knobil 



Follicular Development, Ovular Maturation and Ovulation in 

 Ovarian Tissue Transplanted to the Eye 24 



R. W. Noyes, T. H. Clewe and A. M. Yamate 



Discussion by Hammond 



The Role of Steroids in the Control of Mammalian Ovulation 37 



Gregory Pincus and Anne P. Merrill 



Discussion by Barraclough, Breneman, Chang, Folley, Creep, 

 Hisaw, Knobil, McArthur, Meyer, Nalbandov, Nelson, Noyes, 

 Pincus, Segal, Simpson and Sturgis 



The Pituitary Stalk and Ovulation 56 



Geoffrey W. Harris 



Discussion by Critchlow 



Interactions between the Central Nervous System and Hormones 



Influencing Ovulation 79 



Charles H. Sawyer and M. Kawakami 



Discussion by Hansel 



The Preoptic Region of the Brain and its Relation to Ovulation 101 



John W. Everett 



Discussion by Barraclough, Folley, Hansel, Harris and Segal 



Mechanisms Controlling Ovulation of Avian and Mammalian 



FolUcles 122 



Andrew V. Nalbandov 



Discussion by Hisaw, Meyer and Nalbandov 



Ovulation in the Domestic Fowl 133 



Richard M. Fraps 



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