Abstract
I refer to Professor van Steenis’s statement, made during the morning presentation of papers, that the flora of Mt Kinabalu is of Mesozoic parentage. Biologists must accept the fact that the mountain could not have existed as such at that time. By no stretch of the imagination, or re-interpretation of the geology, could the mountain have existed before the Tertiary. In fact, I agree with Mr Collenette’s conclusion that, although the granodiorite of which the mountain is built may have been intruded earlier, it did not give rise to a really prominent element of the topography before the Pliocene.
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