Bombay (India)

Elements area

Taxonomy

Code

Scope note(s)

    Source note(s)

      Display note(s)

        Hierarchical terms

        Bombay (India)

          Equivalent terms

          Bombay (India)

            Associated terms

            Bombay (India)

              23 Archival description results for Bombay (India)

              23 results directly related Exclude narrower terms
              IND-IIA-F189-I26 · Item · 07-07-1913
              Part of Correspondence from Poona and other Observatory

              This letter was from the Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatory informing about the erection of new buildings for Poona instruments and outside painting of Observatory Domes, the Spectroheliograph building and the magnetic observatory.

              Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories
              IND-IIA-F173-I09 · Item · 25-08-1982
              Part of M.K.Vainu Bappu's newspaper clippings

              The item was about the rich tributes paid to the noted Indian astronomer M. K. Vainu Bappu. Scientists of Bombay at a condolence meeting held at the Nehru Planetarium on August 22. The director of TIFR said M. K. Vainu Bappu was a giant among astronomers and also suggested that the famous 90-inch telescope should be renamed after him. It also speaks on the M. K. Vainu Bappu-Wilson effect and also the first Indian to discover a comet that had been named after him.

              Vainu Bappu, M. K.
              IND-IIA-F189-I09 · Item · 10-07-1911
              Part of Correspondence from Poona and other Observatory

              This letter was written by L. Robertson, Esquire, I.C.S., Secretary to Government to the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Revenue and Agriculture, requesting the opinion of the Government of Bombay as to whether the Maharaja Takhtsingji Observatory at Poona should not be abolished on the retirement of Professor Naegamvala and as to whether the instruments etc. might not be removed to the observatory at Kodaikanal. He forwarded a list of principal instruments at the Poona Observatory and said the Maharaja of Bhavnagar accepted the above understanding.

              Robertson, L.
              IND-IIA-F189-I06 · Item · 16-11-1911
              Part of Correspondence from Poona and other Observatory

              This letter was issued from the Department of Revenue and Agriculture (Meteo.), The Government of India agreed with the proposal of closing the Maharaja Takhtasingji Observatory at Poona, and the instruments would be shifted to the Solar Physics Observatory at Kodaikanal. The Director General of Observatories asked Mr Evershed to be present at Poona during the dismantling of the telescopes and also to send the 'enlarging apparatus and spectrum microscope' to Kodaikanal if its removal doesn't interfere with the working of Poona Observatory before abolition.

              Holme, H. B.
              IND-IIA-F189-I17 · Item · 18-07-1912
              Part of Correspondence from Poona and other Observatory

              This letter is enquiring about preparing plans and estimates for the new buildings required and also asked for having a stone tablet designed with an inscription referring to the donor of some Poona instruments.

              Kodaikanal Solar Observatory
              IND-IIA-F189-I21 · Item · 09-11-1912
              Part of Correspondence from Poona and other Observatory

              This letter was sent to the Director General of Observatories, Simla, from the Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatory stating new works contemplated for the coming year are the buildings for the Poona instruments.

              Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories
              IND-IIA-F189-I10 · Item · 16-05-1912
              Part of Correspondence from Poona and other Observatory

              This letter was written to the Director General of Observatories, Simla, from Kodaikanal, regarding the requirement for new buildings for Poona instruments. This letter mentioned the instruments' names like the 20-inch Equatorial Reflector, Poona revolving dome, 8-inch lens and siderostat, 6-inch Cooke photovisual equatorial and detailed requirements for constructing buildings for those instruments.

              Kodaikanal Solar Observatory
              IND-IIA-F189-I20 · Item · 09-11-1912
              Part of Correspondence from Poona and other Observatory

              This letter was written to Simla from Kodaikanal confirming receiving all the instruments from Poona, including heavy mountings. Here, it's mentioned that for sanction, the total amount had been paid for cartage and storage and a small balance of the railway freight. One enclosed statement about expenditure regarding Poona instruments since 1st April is also included.

              Kodaikanal Solar Observatory