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In the editorial "Punctuated equilibrium in scientific publishing"by Ellis Rubinstein (9 June, p. 1415), the first name of GerardPiel was spelled incorrectly, and his year of retirement, andthat of Dennis Flanagan, should have been given as 1984, not1986.