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IND-IIA-F004-I04 · Item · 27-07-1920
Part of Correspondence of E. C. J Bond and the Director of Kodaikanal Observatory

The letter was written by E. C. J. Bond, the officer in charge No. 18 party (Magnetic), Survey of India, to the Director of the Madras and Kodaikanal Observatories, Kodaikanal, Via the Superintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey. Through this letter, E. C. J. Bond was conveying three suggestions to the magnetic observers to raise the calibre of the observatory magnet.

Bond, E. C. J.
IND-IIA-F004-I02 · Item · 09-04-1919
Part of Correspondence of E. C. J Bond and the Director of Kodaikanal Observatory

The letter was written by E. C. J. Bond who was the officer in-charge No. 18 party (Magnetic), Survey of India to the Director of the Madras and Kodaiknal Observatories, Kodaikanal. In this letter, he claims to have sent a registered parcel post to Kodaikanal that contained three strips of fine phosphor bronze fibre and four incredibly fine tungsten wires that could be used to suspend the magnetograph's declination. The letter was written in Dehra Dun in 1919.

Bond, E. C. J.
IND-IIA-F004-I05 · Item · 01-10-1920
Part of Correspondence of E. C. J Bond and the Director of Kodaikanal Observatory

The letter was written by E. C. J. Bond who was the officer in-charge No. 18 party (Magnetic), Survey of India to the Director of the Madras and Kodaiknal Observatories, Kodaikanal through the Superintendent of the Trignometrical Survey. Through this document, the author was inquiring how the tabulated data in the original and duplicate magnetic forms taken from Kodaikanal and delivered to the Survey of India office differed. Also provided are a few instructions for the observers. Letter was sent from Mussoorie in 1920.

Bond, E. C. J.

The letter is from Gilbert T. Walker to the Director Kodaikanal informing about enclosing a copy from the Finance Department sanctioning thr transfer of the observer's house at Periyakulam together with its site to the Govt. of Madras free of cost.

Kodaikanal Solar Observatory
IND-IIA-F213-I10 · Item · 23-02-1909
Part of Correspondence related to Spectroheliograph's roofing during 1907-1923

The letter is from the Director, Kodaikanal & Madras Observatories to the Executive Engineer, Madura, mentioning Mr R. Savarinathan, about making a watertight roof and also not signing the estimate as it does not provide for working without interfering in the use of instruments.

Smith, Charles Michie
IND-IIA-F210-I21 · Item · 10-06-1905
Part of Correspondences related to Signaling Time from the year 1904 to 1923

This is a letter from the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories to the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India and the Director General of Indian Observatories regarding the new standard signalling time arrangement. The Government of Madras has also accepted the standard time for local signals.

Smith, Charles Michie

The letter is from D. W. K. Barr to Gilbert T. Walker Meteorological reporter to the government of India, inviting him for an expert opinion on a newly purchased equatorial telescope. The letter includes further details about the telescope, which was mounted in Hyderabad.

Walker, Gilbert T.