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This circular was sent to all local government and administrations to compile and send the difference between Greenwich Mean Time and the Civil Time employed in various parts of India and her dependencies to Professor Milne, The Seismological Investigation Committee of the British Association.

The fonds contain circulars and letters from the Meteorological Department, Government of India.

This fond contains letters, annual expenditure reports and bills of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories. It also contains correspondence of John Eliot,Charles Michie Smith and R.E.V.Arbuthnot during July 1901 to March 1903 regarding the index slip, meteorological summaries, seismological reviews and disturbances and other reports like annual expenditure, bills, and telegraphs. It has a report on the condition and proceedings of the government observatory, Colaba, written by N.A.F.Moos. It also has letters from the Royal Society of India, H. Grubb, J. Larmer, R. Fuess, William Butler and Charles P. Butler to the Meteorological Department and Kodaikanal & Madras Observatory.

This letter was about earthquake records by Milne Seismograph. A register from Alipore observatory from 1st January to 30th June 1903.

This letter was about the extension of tenure of C. M. Smith for one year from 13th July 1909, the date on which he attains the age of 55 years.

This letter was about the reply on photographic plates for the spectroheliograph.

The document is a letter from Charles P. Butler to Gilbert T. Walker, the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India and Director General of Indian Observatories, Calcutta, in 1903. The document conveys that the Kodaikanal Observatory had received the case containing eight thermometers and one rain glass for five gauges that the meteorological department had delivered.

The document is a letter asking The Meteorological Reporter to send sunlight cards to Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories.

The item was to inform The Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India and Director General of Indian Observatories that the specimens of the sunshine cards printed from Lawrence Asylum Press, Madras, during each year 1901-02 and 1902-03 have been sent to the office as per the request.

This letter was a request regarding the present state of knowledge about the periodocity of sun spot activity.