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Cardiovascular Primate Committee" submitted by Dr. George E. Burch, Chairman. (li: 
The revision was based upon the estimates of the subcommittee, but differed | 
from the original subcommittee document in designating the proposed research 
facility as a "Primate Research Station" with a non-exclusive focus in the 
cardiovascular research field, in line with the discussion at the February 10, i 
1958 meeting. I 
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Also at the June 1958 Council meeting. Dr. Andrus reported on the May 9th 
meeting of the Council's new Organization Committee, the suggestions of which * 
were accepted by the Council. At the same time the Council dismissed the I 
previous ad hoc (Burch) committee with the following expression of appreciation! 
"As an initial stage in the development of plans for a cardiovascular primate | 
research station, the National Advisory Heart Council asked one of its members * 
Dr. George Burch, to serve as chairman of an ad hoc committee to provide the 
Council with preliminary advice. The committee consisted of Dr. George Burch 
(Chairman), Dr. E. Cowles Andrus, Dr. Howard J. Curtis, Dr. Harry F. Harlow, 
Dr. Theodore C. Ruch, Dr. Leon H. Schmidt, Dr. Irving S. Wright-, and Dr. Glenn 
Finch. — Several members of the committee had had experience with the use 
of nonhuman primates in research and constituted a subcommittee to look into 
the problem in considerable detail. The Council appreciates the work of the ^ 
committee and its subcommittee and the well-considered advice given to the 
Council in the committee's report. This is of great assistance in enabling j 
the Council to enter now into a second stage of planning. The Council wishes 
to have this expression of its thanks conveyed to the members of the committee ii 
and particularly to the subcommittee, who expended so much of their valuable t 
time and effort in the initial stage of planning. Although the work of the l| 
ad hoc committee is completed, the Council hopes that those who have served I 
on the committee may be called upon for additional assistance from time to |! 
time as the need arises." M[ 
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The members of the first committee, — particularly its subcommittee, were 
much distressed that the push being made was for a categorical (cardiovascular) ' 
primate research facility, rather than simply a primate research facility 
(institute). It was most difficult for them to accept the categorical approach,! 
even for tactical purposes. Although recognizing that the initial categorical 
focus could be broadened to a general biomedical approach, they evidently 
feared this would not take place. There was much of f- the-record discussion 
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20 / Mrs. Edgar G. Tobin, a member of the Heart Council, was added after the 
first meeting of the group. Mrs. Tobin was interested in the development of 
primate research facilities and was closely involved with the development by 
the Southwest Foundation for Research and Education of a baboon research 
colony at San Antonio, Texas. Although not supported through the RPRC Program, 
this colony under the Directorship of Dr. Harold Vagtborg has developed into 
a true regional primate research center, with the baboon as the main animal. 
21 / The "Steering Committee," Dr. Burch, Chairman, whose "subcommittee" wrote 
the "Proposal for a National Primate Institute." 
