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This letter was reply to letter dated Oct. 29 about lenses. He was requesting 15-inch, 12-inch, 4-inch and a lens of about 7 ft. focus lenses to be send from Nizamaiah Observatory to Kodaikanal Road Station mentioning the purposes for which it requires. In addition the item has the telegram messages written by Evershed to Pocock and vice versa.

This letter contains information about testing of the 15 inch lens on stars etc and finding something wrong in color correction.

This a letter of enquiry regarding sending of lenses located at Nizamiah Observatory could be sent to Evershed. It also encloses a copy of Pocock's letter where description about the lenses are mentioned.

The letter was an acknowledgement from the Head of the observatory to John Evershed for arranging lenses properly for observation.

The letter was written by Houghtons Ltd. to The Secretary of State for India in Council on the enquiry about the quality of the spectrograph slides being sent to Kodaikanal Observatory.

The photographic slides contain images of Antarctica by Jagdev Singh. It includes images of the telescope, National Physical Laboratory(NPL) tower, iceberg, lake and mountain in Antarctica.

The photographic slides contain images of the 40-inch telescope control desk, it's construction, reparing of it's dew cap from 1971 to 1984.

The photographic slides contain images of Ritchey Chretien, Raheem and Nadhan at Kavalur, a rite of the first hut, a 16-inch telescope, a 30-inch drive circuit microprocessor, ribbon cutting at STARS(1977 Jan 23), 6-inch telescope, Schimt telescope, etc in Kavalur Observatory.

The item was about the rich tributes paid to the noted Indian astronomer M. K. Vainu Bappu. Scientists of Bombay at a condolence meeting held at the Nehru Planetarium on August 22. The director of TIFR said M. K. Vainu Bappu was a giant among astronomers and also suggested that the famous 90-inch telescope should be renamed after him. It also speaks on the M. K. Vainu Bappu-Wilson effect and also the first Indian to discover a comet that had been named after him.

These photographic slides contain the 6-inch telescope at Mount Nimmu top on an astronomical site survey at Leh-Ladakh during 1984-1989.