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Physiology and biochemistry of male reproductive function and semen
became the main area of my research in 1944, after my attention was
finally diverted frorp. animal cells in general, to mammalian
spermatozoa specifically~ Ever since, the interest has remained
largely focussed on reproductive probletns in mammals, the work
continuing mostly at the University of Cambridge, where I was
privileged to hold also the Marshall Walton Professorship in
Physiology of Reproduction. This work led to the publication of
three books, The Biochemistry of Semen (Methuen 1954), The
Biochemistry of Semen and of the Male Reproductive Tract (Methuen
1964) and lately, in co authorship with my wife, Dr. Cecilia
Lutwak-Mann, Male Re productive Function and Semen - Themes and
Trends in Phys iology, Biochemistry and Investigative Andrology
(Springer Verlag 1981). In 1960, thanks to the Lalor Foundation, I
was able to avail myself for the first time of a chance to visit
the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole and there to take
part in a study of reproduction in marine animals. Ever since,
first as Visiting Professor of Biology at the State University of
Florida, and later as the Walker Ames Professor and frequent
visitor to the Department of Zoology at the University of
Washington in Seattle, it has been my good fortune to sustain this
pew interest and to pursue it further.
To present a coherent and meaningful survey of scientific research
endeavour in an area that has expanded as fast as physiology and
biochemistry of reproduction in the male is no mean task these
days. No less prodigious than the growth of knowledge of male
reproductive function has been the rate at which the outpouring of
publications on this subject has continued since the appearance of
'The Biochemistry of Semen and of the Male Reproductive Tract' in
1964. Since cyclopaedic treatment of this vast literature did not
appeal to us, we have made no attempt either to rehash the material
contained in that book or to enlarge the bibliography beyond the
nearly 3500 references included in the present treatise. At the
same time, whilst writing, we felt strongly that to advance, it is
necessary to understand the past, and for this reason we have not
hesitated to refer (especially in the introductory chapter) to a
number of those fundamental early discoveries in which today's
knowledge is deeply and firmly rooted.
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