The function of members of this Committee is to select
collaborators competent to conduct investigations and present
reports in the form of books or monographs ; to consult with
these writers as to plans of study ; to read the completed
manuscripts, and to inform the officers of the Endowment
whether they merit pubUcation in its series. This editorial
function does not commit the members of the Committee to
any opinions expressed by the writers. like other editors,
they are asked to vouch for the usefulness of the works, their
scientific and hterary merit, and the advisabihty of issuing
them. In hke manner, the pubUcation of the monographs
does not commit the Endowment as a body or any of its
officers to the opinions which may be expressed in them.
