S.I.S. Review

Vol. III No. 2 Autumn 1978

Contents

Focus: A Point of View	29
In Passing: The Sibyl and Dr Stecchini	29
Forum: Letters	34
Horizons	37
Bookshelf	38
DR I. VELIKOVSKY: Retrospect	40
N. J. G. SYKES: An Investigation of Isotope Decay Constancy	43
DR J. C. KEISTER & ANDREW HAMILTON: An Alternative to the Ejection of Venus	45
PETER J. JAMES: A Critique of "Ramses II and His Time"	48
GEOFFREY GAMMON: The Place of Horemheb in Egyptian History	55
DR J. J. BIMSON: An Eighth-Century Date for Merenptah	57
The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies	60
Editor: R. M. Lowery 11, Adcott Road Acklam Middlesbrough Cleveland TS5 7ER Assistant Editors: Peter James 37 Gosberton Road, Balham, London S.W.12 (Ancient History/ Mythology) Andrew Hamilton 4 Pagoda Avenue, Richmond, Surrey TW9 2HF (Physical Sciences) Associate Editor: Brian Moore Geoffrey Gammon Martin Sieff OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY Chairman: H. Tresman, 18 Fir Tree Court Allum Lane, Elstree, Herts. Secretary: Ralph Amelan 6 Jersey House, Cotton Lane, Manchester 20 Treasurer: A. H. Hooker, 11 Broad Oak, Corseley Road, Groombridge, Sussex Foreign Exchange Secretary: R. D. MacKinnon, 7 Parkhill Road, Sidcup, Kent DA15 7NW. Information Officer: J. B. Moore, Central Library Clarence Road, Hartlepool, Cleveland Convenor, Ancient History Study Group G.J. Gammon, 27 The Mall, Surbiton, Surrey COVER: Illustration from the title page of the "Cometographia" of Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), an early tract arguing the parabolic nature of cometary orbits. Copyright (c) 1978 Society for Interdisciplinary Studies ISSN 0308-3276