This office memorandum was sent from the India Meteorological Department to John Evershed about the difficulty in getting the press to set up correctly the type of Seismic records.

The letter was written by E. C. J. Bond who was the officer in-charge No. 18 party (Magnetic), Survey of India to the Director of the Madras and Kodaiknal Observatories, Kodaikanal. He was asking the director to set up the necessary procedures to collect various deflections from the magnetograph in Kodaikanal, including visual and photographic deflections.

Johannes Kepler's Astronomia Nova, published in 1609, was the oldest book available in the archives. It contains the results of Kepler's ten-year-long investigation of the motion of Mars. Where previous astronomers had relied on geometric models to explain the observed positions of the planets, Kepler discovered physical causes for planetary motion. Before Kepler, Nicolaus Copernicus proposed in 1543 that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun. Kepler was the first astronomer to prove this conjecture with rigorous scientific arguments. This Volume has 336 pages and is in fairly good condition.

Astronomical observations made at the honorable The East India Company's Observatory at Madras under the superintendence of John Goldingham, Vol. III

Astronomical observations made at the honorable the East India Company's Observatory at Madras under the superintendence of John Goldingham, Vol. IV

Astronomical observations made at the honorable the East India Company's Observatory at Madras in the year 1843-1847 together with the recomputation of the Sun and Moon and planetary observations since 1831.

The award was an honour of electing John Evershed as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

This document was about bibliography of Dr.M. K. Vainu Bappu's publications under the following headings, I.The Physics of the Sun, II. Physics of the Star, III. Physics of the Solar System, IV. Physical phenomena in galactic and extragalactic systems, V. Astrophysical Techniques.

This document was about brief description of Dr.M. K. Vainu Bappu's academic career, membership, participation in committees and societies, the medals awarded and the research area for which he contributed.

The fond contains 3 books of Astronomical observations made at the honorable the East India Company's Observatory at Madras