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1956 (September) 
1956 (from 
September on) 
1956 (October) 
1957 (January) 
1957 (February) 
1957 (May) 
1957 (May- June) 
1957 (June) 
1957 (August) 
1957 (September) 
1957 (November) 
1957 (September 25 
to May 10) 
1958 (January) 
HED Study Section subcommittee recommended support of both 
central and independent colonies of monkeys, (p. 7) 
Dr. Watt discussed with members of Heart Council the Sukhumi 
visit and the need for primate research facilities in the U, S, 
(p. 8) 
National Library of Medicine established. (p. 17) 
Heart Council Planning Committee meeting. Primate colony in the 
U. So urged. (p. 8) 
Dr. Watt reported informally to Heart Council at its regular 
meeting on the Sukhumi visit. Council charged its Planning 
Committee to initiate planning for long-term cardiovascular 
primate research colony on the mainland of the U. S. (p. 8) 
Heart Council Planning Committee asks its chairman (Dr. Andrus) 
and NHI staff to set up an ad hoc committee to develop definitive 
plans for a national primate colony. (p. 9) 
NHI aid hoc Advisory Committee for the Establishment of a Cardio- 
vascular Primate Colony (Dr. Burch, Chairman) appointed to work 
with Heart Council Planning Committee. (p. 9) 
Heart Council meeting. Dr. Andrus tells Council of an NRC survey 
on primate needs and supply in the U. S., for which the National 
Advisory Health Council had recommended support. (p. 9) 
HED Study Section, hearing of NHI interest in primate colonies, 
again set up subcommittee to advise in the matter and recommended 
that the NTH Councils consider ways and means. (p. 7) 
First meeting of '^ad hoc Advisory Committee for the Establishment 
of a Cardiovascular Primate Colony," Dr. George Burch, Chairman, 
at Dupont Plaza Hotel, Washington, D. C. A subcommittee was 
appointed to develop detailed initial plans: Dr. Howard Curtis 
(Chairman), Dr. Leon Schmidt, Dr. Harry Harlow, and Dr. Theodore 
Ruch , ( p . 9 ) 
Dr. Burch reported to Heart Council at its regular meeting on the 
September meeting of the £d hoc committee, (p. 11) 
Period in which the ad hoc committee's subcommittee (Dr. Curtis, 
Chairman) visited a number of sites and prepared a report "A Pro- 
posal for a National Primate Institute." (p. 11) 
Dr. K. F. Meyer succeeded Dr. E. Cowles Andrus as chairman of the 
National Advisory Committee for Rhesus Monkey Requirements, (p. 7) 
