This letter is from John Evershed, Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories, to Director General of Observatories. This talks about the sanction, which amounts to Rs.5840. It also contains a letter received from the superintending engineer 6th circle.

The letter is from John Evershed to Gilbert T. Walker regarding the rates of the Reifler clock. It states that the Reifler clock in Calcutta runs better than that in Madras.

The letter contains information stating the return of 4-inch lens to Pocock and retaining of 15-inch lens to verify the Venus results.

This letter was with reference to the telegram where mean areas giving better gauge of prominence activity than mean extent are discussed. It also encloses a table of mean areas from 1890 to 1921.

John Evershed, Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatory, wrote this letter to Gilbert T. Walker, assuming they might be getting the prism from Poona Observatory. He mentioned sending correspondence about the new micrometer and a specification. He devised another much simpler method of reducing moonlight comparable with 1st magnitude stars, which seems quite successful. He also proposed purchasing a Hartmann machine from private funds to save time and trouble.

This letter was an acknowledgement for the comet plate and dicussing to compare with the existing plates.

The letter was a confirmation of forwading a box containing 15 Sun charts which have been modified with the details of charts structure and required numbers of prints for each charts annually.

The letter was regarding the Sun charts prints that are not satisfactory as the negatives are imperfect. Therefore sending of original charts on cloth which are 26 inches in diameter are proposed by Evershed.

This letter was about return a copy of the annual report as desired and providing errors of ruling in the best gratings.

This letter was an acknowledgement for sending pump and bell jar. Evershed mentioned about getting the beautiful series of plates of the Spectrum of the iron arc in air and the centre of Sun's disk. He has written about reproduction of prominence photos the sample of work done by the Roorkee Coy., is suitable the screen used being very fine.