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 is a memorandum to the Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories Director regarding Taylor's general catalogue of stars. It informs that 45 copies of the Catalogue of Stars are available, and the Director should notify the government of the number of copies required. In the same copy, the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories replied that he would like to have two copies at Madras and Kodaikanal, each with one personal copy for himself.

This is a memorandum by the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories regarding the electrical installations proposed to be done at the Observatory in Madras.

This letter is forwarded to the Director of the Kodaikanal Observatory with a request to state whether the Szerelmey stone-petrifying liquid still gives good results as a protection against dampness. The forwarded copy contains three previous letters about the stone petrifying liquid between the Executive Engineer, Superintending Engineer, and Chief Engineer.

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

A memorandum from Public Works Department regarding buildings and roads in Kodaikanal about estimation

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 Memorandum no. 1619 is for Chief Secretary regarding the letter No. 123 dated 29 June 1898 where what kind of instruments are needed, cost of such instrument etc was asked

Madras Observatory papers by J. Goldingham, by the order of the Government of Madras, in 1826

The fond contains observations notes on Madras meridian observations recorded during 1874-1904 from Madrsa Observatory. The observations concern minor planets, stars, equations for the stars i, j, and c, corrections to observed magnetic declination, the Moon and planets, R. Andromeda, Asia, minor planets, and apparent polar distance of stars.