Rosemary G. Gillespie is a professor of insect biology@the University of California, Berkeley. She holds the Schlinger Chair of Systematics and is director of the Essig Museum of Entomology. Her research focuses on evolution of the spider genus Tetragnatha in remote islands of Polynesia and on evolution of the Hawaiian happy face spider Theridion grallator. Address: Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Division of Insect Biology, 201 Wellman Hall MC 3112, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3112. Internet: gillespi@nature.berkeley.edu