Contains abstracts of such topics as: Evolution of the processes used for the hand-fashioning of window glass from the tenth century to the present; history of the glass industry in Japan; The tercentenary of Neri-Merrett's The Art of Glass; problems of research on Polish glass in the early middle ages; the history of Czechoslovakian glass and its development from 1945 to the present; ancient glassmaking techniques: Egyptian fused miniature mosaics; Lauenstein glasses--notes for the connoisseur; contributions to the sociology of glass--an attempt; intentional use of antimony and manganese in ancient glasses; archaeological evaluation of analyses of ancient glass; early stages of glassmaking in the USSR; electron beam probe microanalysis of ancient glass; a study of the opalising agents in ancient glasses throughout three thousand four hundred years, part II; historical and technological research on the ancient glass of Aquileia; archaeological criteria for the dating of ancient glass; the use of research made by a historian of material culture in the determination of the origin and strictic features of glass monuments; Sasanian luxury glass; lighting and architecture; fiber glass: modern history and prognosis; the glass industry in the Roman Rhineland; fossil glasses produced by impact of meteorites and asteroids with the planet earth; ancient glassmaking: the evolution of techniques; ancient glassmaking: methodology for attacking the assyrian glassmaking texts; and the precision attainable in the chemical analysis of ancient glasses.