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history and composition of the NACP, which was to provide the initial review 
of applications. She then reported on primate center grant applications 
received and anticipated. It was agreed that all the project site visits 
made as a part of the review procedure should be by members of the initial 
review group, but that professional members of the Heart Council should be 
included. Applications for two primate centers selected for establishment 
might acceptably add up to more than the $2 million appropriated, but the 
$2 million could be used to get the centers started. Although two regional 
centers were to be established, the committees still viewed a "station" as a 
goal. 
The joint meeting of the Heart Council's Organization Committee and the NACP 
was held in San Francisco on November 23, 1959. Dr. K. F. Meyer presided. 
The joint group reviewed the history and activities of the NACP, considering 
the function of the NACP and its relation to the Heart Council. They reviewed 
the historical development of the primate research center program and dis- 
cussed the concept of and support of the primate research centers. Provided 
with information on anticipated applications, they discussed primate research 
support needs which could not be met by the regional centers. Early plans 
were made for project site visits. 
At this meeting the NACP drafted^^ several resolutions to the Heart Council 
that were later put into final form. (15) The following is quoted from these: 
"The National Advisory Committee on Primates is willing (a) to accept the 
responsibility to function as a study section in providing initial scientific 
review of applications for grant support where the primate is of major con- 
sideration and to make recoiranendation to the appropriate National Councils; 
(b) to proceed with all dispatch to recommend to the National Advisory Heart 
Council suitable locations for two or more primate centers; (c) to consider 
especially the possibility that one of these centers may develop into a 
national primate research station; and (d) to investigate the desirability of 
encouraging primate research projects and recommending their support to the 
appropriate Council." The committee also urged the establishment of training 
programs in the field of primate research. 
The following, quoted from the minutes of the committee meeting, indicates the 
concept of a center as agreed upon by the committee: "The concept of a center 
as contrasted with a large station would be a more local or regional kind of 
establishment, closely associated with a university locality or region. It 
would perform a local function and in addition a regional or possibly a national 
function. The local function means that a research program would be carried 
on by a professional staff in the center, working in cooperation with the 
people in the various departments of the medical school or university, financed 
either directly by the government or some special mechanism in which the uni- 
versity is involved. The center would have a director, and the research staff 
39 / The reader is referred to the minutes (15) of this meeting for details 
other than those given here. 
