Created by Medical Research Council
23 Nov 1949
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'7. Activities of the Bureau.

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West Africa Primate Project.

The Director quoted figures of costs of some of the monkeys which had been imported from West Africa this summer and drew attention to the disproportionate cost of the crates which were used. ...

... It was pointed out that the supply of Indian monkeys was getting increasingly difficult due to circumstances in India. Professor Glover regarded the following-up of the West Africa project as a long term policy designed to ensure supplies of monkeys when Indian sources became too difficult or expensive to rely upon. The Director was asked to follow up the correspondence which Professor Glover formerly had with Mr. Pasricha of India House. Dr. Paterson said that the Ministry of Supply had arranged to import for use at Porton large numbers of monkeys in two batches during the year, at the beginning and the end of the summer.'