File contains memos from Charles C. Hughes to Alexander Leighton, Jane Murphy, and other members of the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry concerning past research projects and studies. Also contains copies of outgoing letters from Charles C. Hughes to Mr. Okunbeyi of the Nigerian government and Dr. Lambo of Aro Hospital discussing the possibility of a research project in Nigeria.
File contains notes on sampling and analysis, information on Nigerian contacts, notes on tribal affiliation, and sample coding. Also contains transcriptions of Jane Murphy's interviews with Tol Asuni and T.A. Lambo regarding regional data samples. Also includes memos concerning psychiatric and social data samples, interview correspondence, and data evaluation.
File contains notes on and general questions about analysis of the Nigerian data samples. Also includes a draft summary of a discussion meeting with Jane Murphy, David Macklin, Veronica Shaw, and Laurel Hodden.
File contains notes on case classification definitions and criteria and computer dataset printouts of case typology statistics for Yoruba villages and Stirling County.
File contains a list of follow-up tasks related to community respondent information. Also contains a bundle of small notecards with similar follow-up questions and notes.
File is comprised of documents related to data sampling in the city of Abeokuta. Contains lists of names, notes on divisions of neighbourhoods, and information and statistics relating to city areas and squares. Also contains a large folded map of Abeokuta.
File contains an assortment of newspaper clippings on sociological topics like education, polygamy, women's rights, teenage discipline, and women in the workforce in Nigeria. Also contains a 2-page index to included clippings.
File contains correspondence with Adolf Meyer. Also includes summaries of recording instruments, synopses of psychiatric cases, a transcript of "Mental health film," and transcripts of conferences and conversations.
File contains correspondence between Alexander Leighton and several different hospitals, clinics, universities, research institutions, and psychiatric associations regarding the development of psychiatric epidemiology programming.
File consists of a second draft of the handbook by Charles C. Hughes written as part of the Cornell-Aro study. File also contains a page of notes on indicators of disintegration.
File contains sets of notes from conferences and meetings in 1937. Also contains a book of course material for Wendell Muncie's psychiatry class in 1941 - 1942.
File consists of several pages of data tables and statistics for female Yoruba respondents' socioeconomic factors, including age group, mental health, children, education, tribal difference, and social class.
File contains summaries of phone conversations, letters, and reports between Alexander Leighton, Terry Rambo/Rambeau, Samuel Popkin, Philip Ross, Jerry Tinker, and Gerald Tinker regarding the psychological study in Vietnam.
File consists of a report by von Severus on the physical health conditions prevalent in Yoruba village to determine their eligibility in the 1961 Cornell-Aro study.
File contains computer dataset printouts. Also includes correspondence regarding corrections to be made on data cards 26 and 27 for the study on the role of women.
File contains a list of research fellows of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and an outline of research for the Stirling County study.
File is loosely organized into two sections: Nova Scotia beaver and Norway beaver. Both sections contain correspondence to and from government officials, biologists, academics, and industry consultants regarding research for and publication of Alexander Leighton's study on beaver mental characteristics. The Norway section also contains excerpts from Norwegian newspapers. There is also a set of handwritten notes titled "Outline for study of the Beaver: D. Cross & A.H. Leighton."
