P. N. Zammit O.P. was a Professor  of Social Studies at Angelicum College in Rome. He contributed to the April/May 1949 edition of Egerton Sykes’ Atlantean Research magazine, with a short paper that criticised the value of Hörbiger’s theories in any scientific investigation of Atlantis. He suggested that any such study should address the following points:

• The Origin of names related to the Atlantic ocean. (Atlas in greek ‘to crush’.Pacifica ‘peace loving’)
• The historical existence of Atlantis.
• Its locality, geography, and time of disappearance.
• Modality and causes of disappearance.
• Effects of its disappearance (did it cause the appearance of lands. Quantity of the sea unchanged?)
• Civilization attained by its inhabitants.
• Influence of its civilization on the remaining continents.
• Any possibility and means of a direct archeological knowledge about Atlantis?