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              Letter 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.
              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.
              Letter from R.K. Rangachan to R.L. Jones regarding a lunar eclipse.
              IND-IIA-F198-I01 · Item · 14-04-1906
              Part of Queries Sent to Various Observatories from 1906 to 1923

              This is a Letter from R. K. Rangachan to R. L. Jones regarding the lunar eclipse. It is a query asking if there was a lunar eclipse visible in India on May 7, 1715. It also says that A.D.Maestro Servel and Dikshit stated in their Hindu calendar that there was a total eclipse of the sun on April 22 previously.

               Ragnachan, R. K.
              Letter from S. M. Sulaiman to John Evershed on discussion on his formula
              IND-IIA-F001-I69 · Item · 14-07-1937
              Part of Official and personal files of John Evershed with other Directors, famous astronomers and global institutes

              The letter discusses on comparison on graphs that gives the difference between the shift of line at the various points, and the shift at the centre to be compared with his formula. At the backside of this letter S. M. Sulaiman's handwritten explained the formula.

               Evershed, John
              Letter from S. M. Sulaiman to John Evershed on the Evershed discovery
              IND-IIA-F001-I62 · Item · 22-10-1936
              Part of Official and personal files of John Evershed with other Directors, famous astronomers and global institutes

              The letter was a appreciation for John Evershed discovery of spectral shift of light from the edge of the solar disc is really double of Einsteins's value. He mentioned about failure of Einstein's relativity. Further he provided 6 points on Newtonian principles, equation for the motion of a light, spectral shift of light.

               Evershed, John
              Letter from S. M. Sulaiman to John Evershed regarding Sulaiman's derived formula
              IND-IIA-F001-I63 · Item · 30-12-1936
              Part of Official and personal files of John Evershed with other Directors, famous astronomers and global institutes

              The letter was a reply to the letter of the 6th of December 1936 and the reprint sent by John Evershed. He enclosed the letter of A. S. Eddington and replying to it. He explained his point of view on A. S. Eddington objection on his formula for the spectral shift of light.

               Evershed, John
              Letter from Sir John Eliot, Meteorologocal Reporter to the Government of India to the the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories regarding seniding a copy of the record of the Seismic disturbances obtained from the seismograph in use at the Alipore Observatory for the half year
              IND-IIA-F003-I31 · Item · 20-08-1903
              Part of Observation notes on earthquake records by Milne Seismograph

              This letter is about sending a copy of the record of the Seismic disturbances obtained from the seismograph in use at the Alipore Observatory for the half year from 1st January to 30th June 1903 together with photocopies.

               Walker, Gilbert T.