This letter informing estimate about the provision for wooden floors to the bedrooms also and for tiling the roofo the outhouses to the quarters

The letter is to the Sub Divisional Officer, PWD, Kodaikanal, requesting to arrange for the painting of the thermometer house, magnetic hut and office room during that year.

This is a reply letter stating that the Director cannot undertake the construction of any new building without the sanction of the Government of India because it is not in the main building of the observatory but a very short distance away

This letter was from the Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatory informing about the erection of new buildings for Poona instruments and outside painting of Observatory Domes, the Spectroheliograph building and the magnetic observatory.

This letter was about the request of the government astronomer to arrange the six rain-gauges for use in the North Arcot district.

These photographic slides contains different images of Mcdonald observatory.

This item was about the map of part of the environs of Madras showing the relative positions of the Observatory house station and the guns. This map was made by J.Goldingham who was F.R.S. in Madras Observatory and the map was published in Madras Observatory papers in 1826 on page no. 177.

This item was about the photograph of granite pillar in meteorology department compound at Nungampakkam, Chennai as seen today. In the compound of the Meteorology Department in Chennai, there is a 15-foot tall granite pillar weighing 10 tons. This granite pillar is part of the Regional Meteorological Centre in Chennai and is preserved as a monument. This is the place where Madras Observatory was existed.

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

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