The first James Russel Goding Memorial Lecture of the Australian Society for Reproductive Biology. The ovine and bovine oestrous cycle. An appreciation of J. R. Goding's contribution to the understanding of the oestrous cycle.

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The First James Russell Goding Memorial Lecture of the Australian Society for Reproductive Biology AN APPRECIATION OF J. R. GODING'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE OESTROUS CYCLE Department of Agriculture, Victoria, S.S. Cameron Laboratory, State Research Farm, Werribee, Victoria 3030, Australia (Received 1st October 1974) Today I honour the memory of James Russell Goding, my past colleague and mentor. I worked closely with Jim Goding throughout a period in his life when he contributed much to our understanding of reproductive physiology. I first met him in the mid 1960s when he and Dr W. Hansel visited the State Research Farm, Werribee. From that day, our friendship quickly developed and continued to grow as we undertook joint research programmes. To us both, it felt as if we were moving from one exciting discovery to the next—as if we were continually 'riding high'. The excitement of measuring LH in ovine plasma,