This is Reply letter to the Director General of Observatories from J.W. Hearn sanctioning the extension of Mr John Evershed's services for a further one year, effective from 26th February 1922.

This item contains letters between C.J. Ussher, Superintending Engineer to the chief engineer, Public Works Department to forward the sanction an estimate prepared at the request of the Director, Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories.

This item contains letters between C.J. Ussher, Superintending Engineer to the chief engineer, Public Works Department to forward for approval and sanction amounting to Rs.60 for sinking a well to the mechanics and bookbinders quarters at Kodaikanal

This item sanctions Rs.16700 to the current years grant for imperial civil works to meet the expenditures on observatory buildings in Kodaikanal including Departmental charges.

In this item the Superintending engineer submits a report regarding the progress made on the new observatory buildings in Kodaikanal. It also talks about the special arrangements made by the general superintendent.

The item is a telegraph about telegraph lines affected by magnetic storm

This letter was written by L. Robertson, Esquire, I.C.S., Secretary to Government to the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Revenue and Agriculture, requesting the opinion of the Government of Bombay as to whether the Maharaja Takhtsingji Observatory at Poona should not be abolished on the retirement of Professor Naegamvala and as to whether the instruments etc. might not be removed to the observatory at Kodaikanal. He forwarded a list of principal instruments at the Poona Observatory and said the Maharaja of Bhavnagar accepted the above understanding.

This is a reply letter about sanctioning the removal of all instruments belonging to the Poona Observatory to Kodaikanal. But if any of them are not of service to the observatory but are helpful to the College of Engineering Poona, they may be left for the use of the college.

The letter to the Director of Kodaikanal Observatory informs that the insurance for the articles is 4 per cent for 100 miles, and hence the charge is Rs. 89.

In this letter, the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories expected a large consignment of astronomical instruments from the Sub Division officer, Kodaikanal, D. Brodie, to arrive in Kodaikanal in a few days.