NO. 3662 PRIMATE BIOLOGY—NAPIER rus 
programs with certain universities in special relation to centers of 
primate research. Schemes of this nature would involve praticipation 
by staff specialists in lectures and seminars held at the graduate 
school in question and the admission of graduate students to intern- 
ships at the Smithsonian for a period of a year or less under the 
supervision of staff members. 
Crash Courses: Short and intensive courses on the principles of 
primate biology will be arranged for institutions and research centers 
for the benefit of professional employees and technicians. 
Undergraduate Courses: Lectures and seminars will be arranged 
under educational agreements with universities in association with 
anthropology and zoology degree courses. In order to implement such 
educational agreements, the permanent professional staff, term ap- 
pointees, graduate students, and consultants in specialist fields would 
be expected to play a professorial as well as a research role. Although 
the academic level of the different courses will vary with the status 
of students concerned and with the nature of their scholastic back- 
ground, the subject content will be fairly constant and will embrace 
the following fields of study: 
Principles of evolution, systematics, classification and evolution of primates. 
Zoogeography and ecology. Anatomy, physiology and behavior with particular 
reference to habitat (anatomical and ecological basis of behavior). Molecular 
biology and genetics. Zoonoses, welfare and husbandry of the captive primate. 
Conservation. 
Courses will comprise some lectures but principally seminars and 
practical classes. Motion picture film will be used extensively (see 
“Film Library’”’ p. 26). An essential corollary of a teaching program is 
the production of a comprehensive textbook. This obviously cannot 
be conjured up overnight and it may be several years before a satis- 
factory student manual can be produced. As an interim measure, 
the author is preparing a short student text that should be available, 
modestly priced, in 1969. 
Collection Programs 
The nature of the program outlined above will necessitate, above 
all, large and adequately cataloged study collections of primate 
skins, skulls, skeletons, and wet specimens. 
Data Processing: Participation in the Automatic Data-Processing 
System for cataloging and retrieving information relating to speci- 
mens, a system already in use in the Museum of Natural History, 
is a possibility to be investigated. It is questionable whether the size 
of the present collection of Primates in the Division of Mammals 
would justify the high cost involved. Considered in terms of the 
international orientation of this program, however, such a partici- 
