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This letter informing estimate about the provision for wooden floors to the bedrooms also and for tiling the roofo the outhouses to the quarters

The letter is to the Sub Divisional Officer, PWD, Kodaikanal, requesting to arrange for the painting of the thermometer house, magnetic hut and office room during that year.

This is a reply letter stating that the Director cannot undertake the construction of any new building without the sanction of the Government of India because it is not in the main building of the observatory but a very short distance away

The album contains images related to the setting up of the park and garden opposite the Director's office. The pictures of Director R. Cowsik and other IIA staff with the building workers can be seen in this album.

The album contains photos of the garden and buildings in the IIA Bangalore campus. The campus maintains a beautiful garden that is prosperous with diverse fauna and flora. Photographs of different blocks such as the main building, admin office, department of optics, canteen, guest house, and auditorium are arranged after the photos of the IIA garden.

This item was about the photograph of granite pillar in meteorology department compound at Nungampakkam, Chennai as seen today. In the compound of the Meteorology Department in Chennai, there is a 15-foot tall granite pillar weighing 10 tons. This granite pillar is part of the Regional Meteorological Centre in Chennai and is preserved as a monument. This is the place where Madras Observatory was existed.

The letter is to the Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatory regarding the works done on the sliding roof and the effect of storms on it.

This memorandum was written from the superintending Engineer for submitting plans and estimate of Rs 21,300 for constructing quarters for the European Assistant to the Director

In this memorandum the government had under consideration the question of constructing residential quarters for the officers of the Police Department and proposed the portion marked 'D' in the enclosed plan of the Madras Observatory

This item contains Letters from G.S.T Harris the consulting Architect to Government to the Chief Engineer Public works department regarding the construction of observatory on Doddabetta Peak in the Nilgiris district and the constructions going on in the Kodaikanal Observatory.