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The article discusses the general features of the intertideal zonation of the more common or characteristic organisms in the Gold Coast, Queensland. A research concerned with the vertical and horizontal distribution of seaweeds as well as the distribution of animals present in the area. It is revealed that rocky shores in the area are divided according to the amount of wave action into exposed, moderately exposed and moderately sheltered and sheltered as well as the type of zonation characteristic of each type. Distribution of plants and animals in rocky shores differ in every zone and only depends on the type of water they can use for survival.

The article defines a method for the numerical analysis of forest micropattern which is based on contiguity of species. The use of the analysis is illustrated by applying it to the study of a small area of subtropical rain forest in northern Queensland. It also demonstrates the power of the analysis in revealing significant environmental factors, and its superiority in this respect over conventional plot sampling. It discusses the difficulties of elucidating small-scale pattern in forest vegetation, with particular reference to earlier work on plot sampling and single-nearest-neighbour techniques.

The article reports on the study conducted on the tropical forest type in the Gold Coast, Queensland. Researchers found that the history of the area is of interest mainly in indicating whether the vegetation is primary or whether it has been previously affected by man, particularly farming. They found that the forest of the same physiognomic formation and similar floristic composition covers a very great area of the Gold Coast wherein it passes gradually, almost imperceptibly into the Evergreen Forest or Rain Forest in the south-west of the colony and into a drier type of forest to the north and east. Discussed are the details of the issue.

The article explains how the rainfall of the dry season of the Gold Coast, Queensland, must be considered as one main factor that limits the growth of cacao. It is claimed that those important cacao-producing areas have been suffering from a degree of wetness for the dry season of over 10 units, an amount revealed if the rainfall of the dry season and not that of the whole year is to be considered. The dry season then becomes an influential factor on many aspects of the growth and cultivation of the crop because fruiting, vegetable growth, Sahlbergella attack, soil cultivation, and manuring are all undermined by the season.