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IND-IIA-F020 · Fond · 1792

This item was about the photograph of granite pillar in meteorology department compound at Nungampakkam, Chennai as seen today. In the compound of the Meteorology Department in Chennai, there is a 15-foot tall granite pillar weighing 10 tons. This granite pillar is part of the Regional Meteorological Centre in Chennai and is preserved as a monument. This is the place where Madras Observatory was existed.

India Meteorological Department

This letter was sent to the Officer in Charge (Magnetic) Survey of India from the Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatory, asking for a reply to Letter they received from the Meteorological Office, London.

Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories

This letter was sent to the Director, Meteorological Office, South Kensington, London, asking for a circular letter for cooperation in magnetic observations with the Australian Antarctic Expedition. The director of KSO forwarded this letter to the Officer-in-Charge of the Magnetic Survey of India.

India Meteorological Department

The item is letter from the Meteorological Department to the Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatories, containing a copy of letter No.1286 from the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India and Director General of Indian Observatories to the Director General of Stores, acknowledging Letter No.937 dated 19 Jan 1905 and saying that the Director of Kodaikanal Observatory is unable to send the details of the plates for the spectroheliograph until he has experimented with the plates, the information will be send as soon as it is available.

India Meteorological Department

This letter from the Director-general of stores to the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India & Director General of Indian Observatories for a demand made under item 131 for a turning lathe at an estimated cost of Rs. 150

Kodaikanal Solar Observatory

This letter is from the Director to Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India & Director General of Indian Observatories stating that the instruments in question are in use

India Meteorological Department

This letter is from the Director to Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India & Director General of Indian Observatories reply about the forwarding extract from the letter of the Director-General of Stores, London regarding the turning lathe stating that the specification for it supplied by Messrs, Cooke & Sons Seems most satisfactory.

India Meteorological Department