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The album contains archival documents related to John Evershed, a brief biography, photographs, scientific discoveries in astrophysics, drawings, and sketches of observations from the Kodaikanal Solar Physics Observatory. The album starts with a crisp description of the life of John Eveshed. The photographs in the album are based on the following themes: the mechanical workshop and the spectroheliograph, the plaque installed in 1975 in Kodaikanal to commemorate the discovery of the Evershed effect, observatory buildings, and Evershed with the Kodaikanal Observatory staff. In addition, a detailed description related to the Evershed effect is reproduced from bulletin No. XV(1909) of Kodaikanal Observatory, a photo of Halley's comet and a picture of the moon hand-drawn by Evershed, spectra of nova aquilae in 1918, pencil sketches by Evershed on the solar prominences are preserved in this album. Each item is provided with captions.

The album includes photos captured during the visit to the Indian Institute of Astrophysics by Prof. S. Chandrasekhar, an Indian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel prize winner in physical science. This particular visit of Prof. S. Chandrasekhar and his wife, Mrs Lalitha Chandrasekhar, was held in 1991 during the directorship of R. Cowsik.

This fond contains items related to John Evershed and about his discoveries.

The fonds contain posts and telegraph between the telegraph department and the Director of Kodaikanal Observatory

This fond contains correspondences related to queries sent to Kodaikanal Observatory.

The book Rapid Exploration of the Sun by Alex Smith has 88 sheets that is 176 pages. It was published in1964.

The book was edited by ?Richard Taylor in 1841. It has 618 pages. The book contains various scientific topics and research findings. It is one of the volumes in a series of books published by Richard Taylor between ?1837 and ?1852. The series, titled "Scientific Memoirs," was a compilation of selected works from foreign academies of science and learned societies.

The Scientific Memories selection from the transactions of foreign and academics of science and learned societies is a collection taken from the foreign journals and edited by Richard Taylor. The fourth volume was published in 1846

The Scientific Memories selection from the transactions of foreign and academics of science and learned societies is a collection taken from foreign journals and edited by Richard Taylor. The fifth volume was published in 1852

This fond contain newspaper clippings related to Bhaskar Dutta and Suri Bhagavantam