Organic Materials in Aquatic Ecosystems, Humitake Seki, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida, 1982. With 92 figures and 28 tables, vi + 201 p., $64.00 domestic, $75.00 foreign.
Silicon and Siliceous Structures in Biological Systems, T. L. Simpson and B. E. Volcani (eds.). Springer Verlag, Berlin, New York, 1981. With 515 figures, xvi + 587 pp. Hardcover $98.90.
Mineral Deposits and the Evolution of the Biosphere, H. D. Holland and M. Schidlowski (eds.). Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Biospheric Evolution and Precambrian Metallogeny, Berlin, September 1–5, 1980. Springer‐Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1982, 333 pp.