>Dear Willi and others,
>
>Like I pushed things your way for an answer, you did in return to me, and
>with reason...
>I am waiting for a number of manuscripts - I try to motivate authors as much
>as I can (if they answer me at all - some seems to be disappreared from this
>Earth....). I have promisses for over the half of the missing chapters to
>get them soon by now. My planning was to have basically completed the books
>by the end of the year. If I am really able to do that is depending on this
>last number of contributions (and review of them), of which some are
>considered very important to include in the books, because they deal with
>key-subjects (not to say non-key subject contributions are of less value,
>but they are less critical for publishing of these books). Actually I
>receive an increasingly number of revised chapters, which then can be edited
>into the books format and considered ready. My own work is nearing a level I
>can 'complete' things soon - which means I have to compromise between
>putting in 'everything' published I know about, or making choises for
>including specific material sometimes later (If possible, I like to continue
>work on my part of these books, giving an objective review on existing
>methods for SI analysis, in an encyclopedic form - I have over 450 pages
>written at the moment. For 'improving' the general review part: therefore my
>inquiry some weeks ago about digital publishing). For those authors
>wondering about their reviews - their work is supposed to be subjective and
>on actual used systematics, informing an interested reader about the pro and
>cons of mehtods and giving specifications, this complemented by my review
>part just systematically giving any method I can trace, without giving any
>advise which one to use (besides the value of the method in sense of yields,
>acuracy, precision etc., of course).
>
>This weekend I will work at an upgrade of the WEB-site.
>
>I agree with Willi that a good part of the present questions on the list
>could be avoided by having these books published. I work hard to complete
>these books as fast as possible - but it is not only in my hands - I am also
>dependent on authors and reviewers....
>
>Best wishes,
>Pier.

Dear Pier,

As one of the laggards your are waiting on I need you to do me a
favour.  I only Roland Bol's review but have misplaced the others.
Can you send those to me or fax?


Thanks,

Hal
--
Dr. Haraldur R. Karlsson
Associate Professor
Department of Geosciences
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409, USA

phone: 806-742-3130
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