^{page 137 note 1} Members of the American Political Science Association may obtain copies at $0.75 each from the Public Affairs Press, 2153 Florida Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C.

^{page 149 note 1} This report deals with the problems of research. Not only its content but its emphasis is upon facilitating a better research product. For this it offers no apologies. However, it is well at the outset to state explicitly that the Committee thereby intends no reflection upon those members of the Association whose gifts and whose interests lie more in the fields of teaching, administration, or civic activity. We do not regard it as either necessary, appropriate, or even possible to pass judgment on the relative social values of these various outlets for employing the abilities of our colleagues. Quite the contrary, we condemn the tendency in certain institutions to make its faculty conform to a single pattern in emphasis—whether that emphasis be upon research, teaching, administration, or civic activity. Each member of a faculty should, so far as practical considerations allow, feel the maximum freedom to develop his own peculiar genius.

^{page 151 note 2} The analysis in Section III is largely the work of Carl B. Swisher.

^{page 160 note 3} A possible exception is the apparent lack of a market for the valuable “interier report,” a characteristic technique among natural scientists in order to obtain the criticism of their colleagues.

^{page 162 note 4} See this Review, Oct., 1942, pp. 931–945.