The item is letter from the Meteorological Department to the Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatories, containing a copy of letter No.1286 from the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India and Director General of Indian Observatories to the Director General of Stores, acknowledging Letter No.937 dated 19 Jan 1905 and saying that the Director of Kodaikanal Observatory is unable to send the details of the plates for the spectroheliograph until he has experimented with the plates, the information will be send as soon as it is available.

This letter was about a drawing of the spectroheliograph that was received at Gilbert T. Walker from the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.

Charles P. Butler sent this letter to Gilbert T. Walker on installing a spectroheliograph in the Kodaikanal Observatory. The letter was sent from the Royal College of Science, London, on 3rd June 1904.

This letter was about the reply on photographic plates for the spectroheliograph.