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These latter Board members would be appointed by the President of the United 
States upon advice of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. This 
integrated system of centers should be complementary to and not competitive 
with the National Institutes of Health. 
The purposes of the national station would be: 1) to conduct research on 
primates in conjunction with other basic and clinical studies, 2) to inves- 
tigate the usefulness of various species of primates in research, 3) to serve 
as a national reservoir of information on primates and for primate research, 
and 4) to provide facilities for visiting scientists as well as for researchers 
coming from tht. subsidiary centers for training. The visiting scientists 
would get the bulk of their research support from sources other than the 
station's budget. The committee emphasized that, although this system of 
centers was the ultimate goal, initially only the station and one or two 
centers would be established, others being added later. The subsidiary centers 
should be connected with appropriate universities or research institutions 
and should have a maximum of local and institutional participation and support. 
It was considered less desirable that the national station be tied closely 
to any institution, since it should have national direction and guidance and 
relate to all institutions in the country. Although the main support would 
come from Congress, additional support from other sources should be permissible 
and welcomed. The site for the station should include not less than 1,000 
acres and should be in a location attractive to the permanent staff and visit- 
ing scientists. 
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The committee asked Dr. Burch and Dr. Eyes tone— to get the help of an 
architect, to obtain from an appropriate management- consultant firm informa- 
tion on criteria for the selection of a suitable site for the station, and 
to see that fact-finding visits were made to potential sites by persons pro- 
vided with a checklist of items. The items on the checklist should include: 
1) local interest, enthusiasm and potential backing (both financial and 
functional), 2) potential scientific support and utilization of station by 
local institutions and personnel, 3) appropriateness of the site for a nation- 
al station, 4) amount of land available and possible cost, 5) favorable and 
unfavorable physical characteristics of the site, 6) proximity to a city, 7) 
attractions the city could offer the station staff and their families, 8) un- 
favorable characteristics of the city, 9) other attractions the site would 
offer, such as natural scenery, climate, weather, sports, entertainment, 
schools, cultural activities, housing, etc., 10) accessibility of the site 
(available public transportation), 11) proximity to a suitable university, 
research institution or other educational institution, 12) views pf various 
categories of personnel at or near the site regarding the station possibility, 
13) possible functional relationship of a neighboring university or college 
to the station (or, in the case of a regional center, the professional, admin- 
istrative and scientific roles in the center of the personnel of the local 
university or college), 14) names of local persons to be contacted, and 15) 
a detailed map of the locality. Those persons making these site visits were 
28/ Dr. Eyestone joined the staff of the Heart Institute, October 27, 1959, 
in charge of the Regional Primate Research Centers Program. 
