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The letter contains details of Kodaikanal's mean wind direction for 1912. The values from January to December are given in tabulated form. The report was prepared by Thomas Royds, Assistant Director, Kodaikanal Observatory.

The letter was from Thomas Royds, Assistant Director of Observatory, Kodaikanal to G.C. Simpson, the Imperial Meteorologist, Simla. Through this document, Thomas Royds conveyed a new method for taking the mean wind directions in this letter. The document was written in 1914 from Solar Physics Observatory, Kodaikanal.

The document is a pay slip of Thomas Royds for the month of March in 1916, Issued by the Assistant Account General office, Madras. During that time he was working as Assistant Director of Kodaikanal Observatory.

The fond contains documents of Thomas Royds, the past director of Kodaikanal Solar Observatory. It consists of mainly official letters, administrative documents, pay slips and handwritten documents related to Thomas Royds.

The item deals with the appointment of Thomas Royds as the Director of the Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories, with effect from 26th February 1923 after the retirement of John Evershed. It is mentioned that a copy of the letter was forwarded to the Director-General of Observatories, wide no.524-16, and another copy was forwarded to the Director, Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories, Kodaikanal, for information.

The document contains the appointment details of Thomas Royds as the Acting Director of the Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories during the absence of John Evershed on his deputation to New Zealand.

This letter was a copy of an office order was sent by The Director of Ordnance Factories, Calcutta to The Director, Kodaikanal & Madras Observatories, in 1919. The document contains details regarding reuniting with Thomas Royds, Kodaikanal Observatory's Assistant Director, by August 4th, 1919.

The Office order is about granting leave to Thomas Royds for 15 days. The order was issued by E. D Maclagan, the Secretary of the Government of India, from Delhi in 1914. It is stated that copies of the order were sent to the directors of the Kodaikanal and Madras observatories as well as the director general of observatories.

The notice was published by V. Srinivasa Ayyar, Deputy Tahsildar, Kodaikanal inviting officers in the observatory office to attend the "GENERAL PEACE CELEBRATIONS" a DARBAR for making known "THE TERMS OF PEACE TREATY" signed by Germany will be held by the Deputy Tahsildar at the JAMABUNDY HALL in the taluq Cutcherry compound at 10 A.M. on 19-7-1919.

The document was sent from the Director General of Observatories to Thomas Royds in 1913. The Director General of Observatories inquired about the order of the new screw for the Ponna micrometer in response to John Evershed's letter dated 18th August 1913.