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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.

This fond contains materials related to John Evershed that contains general local office materials including letters of all local government and administrations, proceedings, reports to the government of India etc., A large portion of the collection series contains information on observations from various scientists.

The observation note of Madras Equatorial observations on partial solar eclipse, lunar eclipse, occultation of planets and other astronomical objects. This fond significantly describes the disvoery of several planets, their regular activities, and changes and various astronomical phenomena. From these observations several detections were acrried out through screw detection techniques, interval analysis, and finding mean postitions of various stars.

This fond consist of the newspaper clippings on the coverage related to Halley comet.

The fond contains observations of the meridian circle reductions ( refers to the process of correcting the observed zenith distances measured by a meridian circle instrument ) taken from the Madras Observatory from the year 1862 to 1887. Meridian circle reductions refers to a process in astronomy and celestial navigation that involves observations made with a meridian circle instrument.

The fond contains observations of the meridian circle reductions ( refers to the process of correcting the observed zenith distances measured by a meridian circle instrument ) taken from the Madras Observatory from the year 1862 to 1887. Meridian circle reductions refers to a process in astronomy and celestial navigation that involves observations made with a meridian circle instrument.

This item was a magnetic compass which was used by M.K.Vainu Bappu during the visit to Kavalur for site survey. The magnetic compass is a tool used for determining direction on the surface of the Earth. It operates by using a magnetic pointer that aligns itself with the Earth's magnetic field. This type of compass is the oldest and most commonly used in various forms of transportation such as aircraft, ships, and land vehicles. The Earth's magnetic field acts as an enormous bar magnet with a North-South field that causes freely moving magnets to take on the same orientation. Although the direction of the Earth's magnetic field is not entirely parallel to the North-South axis of the globe, it is close enough to make an uncorrected compass a reasonably good guide. The inaccuracy, known as variation (or declination), varies in magnitude from point to point on Earth.

Madras Observatory papers by J. Goldingham, by the order of the Government of Madras, in 1826

The book contains the proceedings of Madras Observatory and different government orders from the year 1857 to 1898. It is xerox copy of original books.

The fond contains observations notes on Madras meridian observations recorded during 1874-1904 from Madrsa Observatory. The observations concern minor planets, stars, equations for the stars i, j, and c, corrections to observed magnetic declination, the Moon and planets, R. Andromeda, Asia, minor planets, and apparent polar distance of stars.