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pattern: 1) They have the same functional features represented by the words 
"core staff," "visiting scientists," and "collaborative activities". 2) Each 
center is more than local in its activities, although each is sponsored by a 
local "host institution". 3) Each was established with local concurrence and 
local assumption of responsibility for the continued welfare of the center. 
4) Each center is headed by a director administratively responsible to an 
appropriate official of the host institution. 5) Each is supported by grants 
made to a local organization, usually the host institution in which is located 
the "principal investigator," a person different from the director of the 
center. 6) Each center differs from the others in the details and main orien- 
tation of its research program. 
The national center differs from the regional centers chiefly in its commit- 
ment to carry on investigations of animal breeding and husbandry with respect 
to various species of primates. It was partly for this reason that the national 
center was located on a large tract of land at Davis, California, in close 
association with a planned medical school and a well-established school of 
veterinary medicine. 
The following table provides some information on the seven primate centers. 
The numbers for staff and for animals in the primate colonies are approximate. 
Subsequent paragraphs give additional information about the centers:^/ 
the Congressional testimony. For example, in the minutes of the joint meeting 
of the Heart Council Organization Committee and the NACP in San Francisco on 
November 23, 1959, page 9 (see reference ( 15 ) and (20)) is the phraseology "(a) 
to carry on long-term institutional research programs requiring more than one 
generation of investigators and more than one generation of animals." Phrase- 
ology such as "long-term" and "research-wide in scope" and "of long-term nature" 
are in the Congressional testimony records (see (27), House, 1960, p. 684 and 
House, 1964, p. 204). The minutes of the June-16-18, 1958 Heart Council meeting 
page 11, under section "IX Report of the Subcommittee on Organization of a 
Primate Research Station" states: "Dr. Andrus reported on the meeting, held on 
May 9, in Bethesda. It met to deliberate about various organizational patterns 
which might be suitable for the Primate Research Station. It was agreed that 
the station should be established on a long-term basis, similar to research 
centers with specific programs such as the National Heart Institute, Brookhaven 
National Laboratory, etc." This concept of a long-term basis (fifty or a hun- 
dred years) was held consistently throughout and did not change when the de- 
cision was made favoring multiple regional primate research centers, rather than 
a single, very large national station. (This footnote applies to other place§ in 
this document, for example to the first paragraph on page 10.) 
4/ See page 26, footnote 47. 
5l For other details, see Fiscal Year 1967 Hearings before the Subcommittee of 
the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, 89th Congress, 2nd 
Session, Part 4, DHEW, NIH(27) . Also see the article "Scientific and Administra- 
tive Concepts Behind the Establishment of the U. S. Primate Centers" by Willard 
H. Eyestone, reprinted from "Some Recent Developments in Comparative Medicine," 
Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, Nov. 17, 1966, Academic Press, 
London and New York; (28) also in J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc . 147 : 1482-7, 1965.(28) 
