Review of Recent Geological Literature. 49 
may still be in the owner of the land. He is a trespasser 
who wilfully passes on to his neighbor's domain ; and he is 
still more a trespasser if he removes, against the owner's 
protest, any of the property of his neighbor. N - H - w - 
Note. — Since the foregoing was written the Oregon 
supreme court has decided this case, as follows, as published 
in the Portland Oregonian: 
Oregon Iron and Steel Company, respondent, vs. Ellis Hughes, 
appellant, from Clackamas county, T. A. McBride, judge; affirmed; 
opinion by Chief Justice Wolverton. 
Held, that a meteoric rock is a part of the real property upon 
which it falls, and evidence that Indians worshipped the rock and 
dipped their arrows in the water held in its cavities is not suf- 
ficient to show that the Indians had dug the rock from the ground 
and acquired title to it as personal property. The question 
whether Indian ownership and abandonment is sufficient ground 
upon which to predicate title in the finder is not decided. 
The court did not consider the evidence as to the 
ownership of the specimen as personal property by the 
Indians of sufficient force to warrant the reference of the 
case to a jury for determination. That evidence failing, 
there was left the bare question as to whether the meteorite 
belonged to the real estate or to the finder. In that the 
Oregon court coincided with the Iowa court in re Winne- 
bago meteorite. N - H - w - 
REVIEW OF RECENT GEOLOGICAL 
LITERATURE. 
Contributions to Devonian Paleontology, 1903. Henry Shaler Wil- 
liams and Edward M. Kindle. Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., No. 244, 
1905, pp. 1-144. 
Bearing of Some New Paleontologic Facts on Nomenclature and 
Classification of Sedimentary Formations. Henry Shaler Wil- 
liams, Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., Vol. 16, March, 1905, pp. 137-150. 
Bulletin No. 244 consists of two parts, No. I. listing and dis- 
cussing "Fossil faunas of the Devonian and Mississippian (Lower 
Carboniferous) of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky," while 
part II. considers in a similar manner the "Fossil faunas of Devon- 
ian sections in central and northern Pennsylvania." A large num- 
ber of sections in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia are 
