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The letter is from Sydney Preston, secretary to the Government of India Department of Revenue Agriculture, to the secretary to the Government of Madras, Public Works Department. It informs about the sanction of the plans and estimates amounting to Rs.6380 for constructing a photoheliograph room with a dome at the Kodaikanal Observatory.

Kodaikanal Solar Observatory

The letter is from the Superintending Engineer to the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories. It contains an estimate to be approved, countersigned, and submitted to the government for sanction. The estimate amounts to Rs.13600 for the construction of a building to house photospectroheliograph in Kodaikanal. Along with the estimates, the plans have also been forwarded.

Smith, Charles Michie

The letter is from Solar Physics Observatory to P. N. Sankarakrishna Aiyar, Meteorological Observer, Periyakulam, informing about the closing of Periyakulam Observatory at the end of that month under the instructions of the Director General of Observatories and also the observer's services will be disposed at the end of a month from that day.

Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories
IND-IIA-F200-I17 · Item · 16-06-1922
Part of Correspondence regarding clocks of Kodaikanal Observatory

This is a letter from S. R. U. Savoor Deputy Director Madras Observatory to the Director General of Observatories Simla informing that there is no connection in practice between humidity of air and rate of Riefler clock as indicated by graphs.

Savoor, S. R. U.
IND-IIA-F205-I05 · Item · 23-02-1902
Part of Correspondance related to Magnetic Observatory during 1898-1923

This letter is from R.E.V. Arbuthnot to the secretary to the Government of Madras, Public Works Department, regarding the erection of a building to house the photo spectroheliograph which was being procured from England for the use of the Kodaikanal Solar Physics Observatory.

Arbuthnot, R. E. V.
IND-IIA-F206-I01 · Item · 1917
Part of Correspondence related to Nizamiah Observatory during 1917-1923

This letter is from R. J. Pocock, Esq., Nizamiah Observatory, Hyderabad Deccan, to the address of Dr G. T. Walker, Director-General of Observatories, Simla, regarding the loan of one or two Chronometers From any of the Indian Observatories That have any to spare.

Pocock, R. J.

The letter was informing about Dr.Walker has written to the Minister of Finance asking about some spare lenses that they have with a view in borrowing them for use in Kasmir. It informs Evershed the type of lens that could be borrowed till the time.

Evershed, John
IND-IIA-F213-I37 · Item · 29-11-1922
Part of Correspondence related to Spectroheliograph's roofing during 1907-1923

The letter is from P. W. Secretariat, Chepauk, Madras, to The Director- General of Observatories informing that the Government is already taking steps to meet the extra demand of Rs. 2500 by reappropriation, and the result of the same will be intimated in due course.

Public Works Department
IND-IIA-F217-I21 · Item · 07-07-1920
Part of Correspondence regarding meteorology during 1898 to 1925

The letter is from P. N. Dutt, Registrar of the University of Panjab, to the Director of Observatories Kodaikanal, enquiring about the home address of John Evershed. This is to communicate that the astronomical instrument installed at the Lahore Observatory is arriving late. It also requests to consider making arrangements for the visit till further information about the instruments is available.

Evershed, John
IND-IIA-F213-I30 · Item · 12-07-1917
Part of Correspondence related to Spectroheliograph's roofing during 1907-1923

The letter is from P. Hawkins, Superintending Engineer, VI Circle, Trichinopoly, to The Director, Kodaikanal & Madras Observatories, informing that he has directed the Executive Engineer Madura Division to put the work in hand at once and complete it at a very early date. The second one states that the delay is due to difficulty in acquiring the materials and their transportation.

Hawkins, P.