Center to Study Gerbils, Dogfish

Approximately 500 dogs, 1000 monkeys, 1000 cats, and 50,000 rodents will inhabit a new $900,000 Animal Research Center to be run by the Harvard Medical School. Bernard F. Trum, lecturer on veterinary medicine in the Department of Pathology, will direct the new center.

The center will be used for long-term experimentation into diseases of laboratory animals, according to yesterday's Boston Sunday Herald. Among the various creatures listed as experimental animals are gerbils, dogfish, sea gulls, bats, frogs, and turtles.

Although Harvard will be responsible for administering the center, the Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, and many local hospitals will also carry on bio-chemical research there, the Herald reported. Possibly ready for use within two years, the center may be located in Southboro.