Guest editor's introduction: Nationalism and archaeology

In this introductory article an evaluation of the emergence and transformations of parallel discourses regarding the past in relation to the political nationalist context in which they were articulated will be offered. A chronological framework will be adopted, thereby acknowledging the importance of the changes nationalism underwent for understanding shifts in discourses on the past.     

Associate editor's editorial

EUROPE

The Political Evolution of the Hungarian Nation. By the Hon. C. M. Knatch‐bull‐Hugessen. 2 vols. London : The National Review Office 1908. Price 15s. net.

The Castles and Keeps of Scotland. By Frank Roy Fraprie. London : George Bell and Sons, 1908. Price 7s. 6d. net.

Along the Rivieras of France and Italy. Written and Illustrated by Gordon Home. London : J. M. Dent and Co. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1908. Price 7s. 6d. net.

ASIA.

From, Damascus to Palmyra. By John Kelman, M.A., D.D. Painted by Margaret Thomas. London : Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Price 20s. net

In Japan: Pilgrimages to the Shrines of Art. By Gaston Migeon. Translated from the French by Florence Simmonds. London: William Heinemann, 1908. Price 6s. net.

A Wandering Student in the Far East. By The Earl of Ronaldshay, M.P. 2 vols. Edinburgh : William Blackwood and Sons, 1908. Price 21s. net.

AFRICA

Tunis, Kairouan, Carthage. By Graham Petrie, R.I. London : W. Heinemann, 1008. Price 16s. net.

The Exploration of Egypt and the Old Testament. By J. Gakrow Duncan, B.D. London : Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1908. Price 5s. net.

AMERICA

The Inner Life of the United States. By Monsignor Count Vay Dk Vaya and Luskod, Apostolic Protonotary. London : John Murray, 1908. Price 12s. net.

Camp Fires on Desert and Lava. By William T. Hornaday. London : T. Werner Laurie, 1908. Price 16s. net.

AUSTRALASIA

The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom. By Basil Thomson. London : William Heinemann, 1908. Price 10s. net.

POLAR

Scottish, National Antarctic Expedition: Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of S.Y. “Scotia.” Vol. iv. Zoology. Part I. Zoological Log. By David W. Wilton, J. H. Harvey Pirie, B.Sc, M.D., and R. N. Rudmose Brown, B.Sc. Thirty‐three Plates and two Maps. Edinburgh : The Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory, 1908. Price 13s.

Zoology. Vol. v. Parts I. to XIII. With Thirty‐six Plates. 1909. Price 23s. 6d.

GENERAL

Practical Geography. Part I. By J. F. Unstead. M.A. Oxford : Clarendon Press. 1908. Price 1s. 6d.

Nautical Charts. By G. R. Putnam, M.S. New York: John Wiley and Sons. London : Chapman and Hall, 1908. Price 8s. 6d. net.     

Guest editorial

Abstract

The Asse Salt Mine near Brunswick in the Federal Republic of Germany has since 1965 been used to develop and to test suitable techniques for the safe disposal of radioactive wastes. Test disposal of low-level wastes started in 1967. During this large-scale experiment about 141 000 200-litre drums of low-level wastes were successfully disposed of until November 1978. Starting in 1972 techniques for the disposal of intermediate-level wastes were successfully demonstrated over a five-year period by disposing of 1298 200-litredrums. As a result of these tests and the accompanying research and development programmes, especially for the disposal of high-level wastes, one can now conclude that reliable techniques exist for the disposal of radioactive wastes at a full-scale industrial repository. This was planned within a German Entsorgungszentrum.