This document was about brief description of Dr.M. K. Vainu Bappu's academic career, membership, participation in committees and societies, the medals awarded and the research area for which he contributed.

This fond contains official letters related to Charles P. Butler during 1903-1904. It includes communications with the Meteorological Reporter, the Government of India and Director General of Indian Observatories, Simla, and the Officer Commanding Royal Engineers, Madras.

This fond contains letters, annual expenditure reports and bills of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories. It also contains correspondence of John Eliot,Charles Michie Smith and R.E.V.Arbuthnot during July 1901 to March 1903 regarding the index slip, meteorological summaries, seismological reviews and disturbances and other reports like annual expenditure, bills, and telegraphs. It has a report on the condition and proceedings of the government observatory, Colaba, written by N.A.F.Moos. It also has letters from the Royal Society of India, H. Grubb, J. Larmer, R. Fuess, William Butler and Charles P. Butler to the Meteorological Department and Kodaikanal & Madras Observatory.

This letter was reply to the questions contained in the letter dated July, 1906, from Prof. Schuster on behalf of the International Union for Solar Research.