The item is a forwarded copy of letter No.4744 from the Director of Telegraphs to the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories, requesting to give information to the Superintendent of the Central Telegraph and the Meteorological Office whenever the tracing indicates magnetic disturbances until the end of February 1903.

The letter was sent from Thomas Royds to Gilbert T. Walker, the Director-General of Observatories, giving information about mean wind directions taken from Kodaikanal Observatory. The letter was sent from Kodaikanal to Simla in 1914.

The item is a letter written by Charles P. Butler, Ag. Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories to John Eliot, the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India and Director General of Indian Observatories, Simla, in 1903. The letter inquires about sending a personal copy of the administration report to M. Compte de la Baume Pluvinel, who was one of the distinguished astronomical spectroscopists.

The letter was reply to D.O.No.2440 of the 8th instant, the R.A. clamp at Lahore is intended to be used with two cords and it was explained to Chowla. Further he mentioned about transit instrument and chronograph are extremly shoddy and not in accordance with specification.

The item is a memorandum to the meteorological observer, informing them to keep observation notebooks and calculation books for coding the daily weather telegram for only two years and to destroy those for the third preceding year.

The office order was about the temporary promotion of Thomas Royds and A. A. Narayana Ayyar. Due to the absence of John Evershed, Director of Solar Physics Observatory, Kodaikanal, The Assistant Director, Thomas Royds, was appointed as Acting Director, and The first Assistant, A. A. Narayana Ayyar, as The Acting Assistant Director. The order was sent from Simla in 1920.

This fond contains materials related to John Evershed that contains general local office materials including letters of all local government and administrations, proceedings, reports to the government of India etc., A large portion of the collection series contains information on observations from various scientists.