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This letter is from Gilbert T. Walker, Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India and Director General of Indian Observatories, to the Director, inquiring whether any notice has been received from Washington regarding a unique series of midnight telegraphic signals to be sent out by the U.S. Naval Observatory on May 3 1905.

This is a letter from Gilbert T. Walker, Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India and Director General of Indian Observatories, to the Director of the Solar Physics Observatory, Kodaikanal, regarding adopting standard time. An official order has yet to be received, so kindly arrange with the Superintendent of the Madras Telegraph Office to send the time signal at 16:00 hours, new standard time, after July 1.

The letter is from Gilbert T. Walker to The Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatories requesting to inform whether the instruments- "Richard's Barograph" and "Do Thermograph" -are still in use at the Periyakulam Observatory and also the dates on which each of these instruments were brought into use at the observatory. The sheet also has the reply to it, which says the instruments were brought on 1st March 1901 and were still in use.

This letter is about sending of a copy of the recording of the Seismic disturbances obtained from the Seismograph in use at the Alipore Observatory for the half year from 1st January to 30th June 1906 together with photocopies of the traces for dates in June

The letter is from Gilbert T. Walker to Charles Michie Smith asking about the dismissal of the Periyakulam as the performance of the observer was unsatisfactory, like tampering with the records. He asks to reply in a short wire by telegraph.

This letter was to enclose in the original a file of correspondence relating to the telegram from Kiel to Kodaikanal, copies of which have been sent to Poona and seeking the views as to future arrangements of Director, Kodaikanal & Madras Observatory.

This letter was about the annual report of Kodaikanal and Madras observatories for 1903.

This letter was about the views of Walker on the report of the Observatories Committes saying that the relations between Kodaikanal and Kensington and the letter received from Lockyer about sending of spectroheliograms.

This letter was about replying to C. M. Smith opinion on uselessness of a table in the solar article for the Monthly Weather Review.

This letter was about the indent raised by C. M. Smith, Kodaikanal Solar Observatory that includes Plates for the Spectroheliograph, Ilford Special Rapid, Sandell Special Extra, Imperia Flash Light, Imperipecial Special Rapid.