140 Meteorological Society. 



Dollond, Esq. F.R.S.; Bryan Donkin, Esq.; Captain John 

 Franklin, R.N.F.R.S.; Davies Gilbert, Esq. M.P.V.P.R.S. 

 F.L.S.; Benjamin Gompertz, Esq. F.R.S. ; Stephen Groom- 

 bridge, Esq. F.R.S. ; Daniel Moore, Esq. F.R.S. S.A. & L.S. 

 Several new Members and Associates were nominated, and 

 the greater part of the Society adjourned to Freemasons' 

 Tavern, where a dinner was provided. 



METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Feb. 11. — A communication from Dr. W. Burney, of 

 Gosport, was read ; also a Note on some curious Effects of 

 the Radiation of Heat; by Luke Howard, Esq. F.R.S. Memb. 

 Met. Soc. And the reading was commenced of a " Memoir 

 on the Variations of the 'refractive and dispersive Powers 

 of the Atmosphere; by T. Forster, M.B. F.L.S. Member of 

 the Society. 



XXVII. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



SILVER MINES OF MEXICO. 



GREAT public interest has been excited of late by the for- 

 mation of companies in London, whose object it is to work 

 the silver mines of Mexico, and who have raised large capitals 

 for that purpose. We have made the best inquiries in our 

 power upon this subject, and we are enabled to lay before our 

 readers some correct information, which will we have no doubt 

 be acceptable, as it relates to undertakings which may have 

 great influence on political events, may enlarge our commercial 

 relations, and extend the field of scientific research. 



The mines of Mexico, though rich, have been abandoned, 

 owing to the joint operation of natural causes and of others 

 arising from long-continued domestic contentions. The first 

 of these causes relate principally to the difficulties arising from 

 increasing depth, and the consequent insufficiency of the means 

 possessed to extract the water and the ore : these it is ex- 

 pected will be easily overcome by the application of our ma- 

 chinery, directed by competent skill to be supplied by persons 

 sent from this country: the other obstacles are likely, it is 

 hoped, to be removed by the settlement of differences among 

 the provincial governments and the arrangement of a legisla- 

 tive body agreeable to the whole. 



The first company which has actually contracted for mines, 

 is called the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association, and possesses 

 a capital of one million sterling in shares ofrflOO each. The 



mines 



