The fond contains correspondence between E. C. J. Bond, the officer-in-charge, No. 18 party (Magnetic), Survey of India, and the Director of the Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories during 1919-1920. The official letters are about the magnetic observations from the Kodaikanal Magnetic Observatory. The observations have been taken from the Kodaikanal Observatory and used to send to The Survey of India office for scientific purposes. This fond consists of 7 letters sufficient to understand the cooperation between The Survey of India and The Kodaikanal Observatory.

The letter was written by E. C. J. Bond who was the officer in-charge No. 18 party (Magnetic), Survey of India to the Director of the Madras and Kodaiknal Observatories, Kodaikanal. He was asking the director to set up the necessary procedures to collect various deflections from the magnetograph in Kodaikanal, including visual and photographic deflections.