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over the House allowance to permit the Heart Institute to proceed with the 
establishment of one such facility during Fiscal Year 1960, assuming that 
this will serve as a prototype for the creation of similar resources else- 
where in subsequent years. 
The appropriation was such, however, that the funds could be and were used 
to establish primate research centers on a broad basis of research on primates 
without the categorical restrictions so feared by the advisors to the Heart 
Council and Heart Institute. 
The Congress thus appropriated funds for the beginning of a program of primate 
research centers, and the Heart Council's Committee on "Organization of a 
Cardiovascular Primate Station" changed automatically into the Heart Council's 
"Committee on Organization of Primate Research Centers,"-^' shedding its 
categorical constraints without losing any momentum whatsoever. The committee 
held its next meeting on September 5, 1959. 
C. From the initial appropriation to the establishment of seven centers 
Up to this point, the Division of Research Grants had not been brought into 
the development of the primate program, although informal communication had 
occurred. However, after the July 17th New Orleans meeting, the Executive 
Secretary (Miss Katherine Parent) of the NACP^ helped to make the initial 
exploratory site visits. These were carried out by members of the Organization 
Committee, Dr. Eyestone, Dr. Yeager, and Miss Parent. 
At its meeting on September 5, 1959^ in Bethesda, the Organization Committee 
persistently reaffirmed its preference for a major national research station.— 
The committee agreed to work towards the establishment of two centers this 
year (one of which they hoped might evolve into a station), but feared that 
a center closely allied with a nearby university would become absorbed as a 
part of the university, whereas a national station would not. The committee 
recommended that the chairman (Dr. Burch) use his grant funds to convene a 
carefully selected group to advise on the best means of organizing and finan- 
cing a station. This group should include a university administrator, a 
business accountant, a businessman, a lawyer, a primate research man, and 
one or two staff representatives. Advice would be obtained from this group 
in advance of the next meeting of the committee on November 4. 
32 / From Senate Report, p. 32, Fiscal Year 1960 appropriations. 
33 / This group will continue to be referred to by the abbreviated name 
"Organization Committee." 
34 / Formerly the National Advisory Committee on Rhesus Monkey Requirements. 
35 / The persistent efforts to bring a national station of the "Woods Hole" 
type into existence failed, but undoubtedly they helped to achieve a national 
conditioning center (National Center for Primate Biology). 
