Hugh G. Gauch, Jr., is a senior research specialist in crop and soil sciences@Cornell University. He received a B.S. in botany from the University of Maryland in 1964 and an M.S. in plant genetics from Cornell in 1966. His research specialty has been statistical analysis of ecological and agricultural data. His most recent book is Scientific Method in Practice, published by Cambridge University Press in 2002. He is a fourth-generation member of Sigma Xi (Cornell University, alpha chapter, 1980), having been preceded by his great-grandfather, Charles Wesley Rolfe (a founding member at the University of Illinois, 1903), maternal grandmother, Susan Farley Rolfe (later Mrs. Horace Graham Butler; University of Illinois, 1909), and father, Hugh Gilbert Gauch (Kansas State University, 1937). Address: Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, 519 Bradfield Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853. Internet: hgg1@cornell.edu