Notes on the biological survey
- MS-13-86, Box 92, Folder 2
- File
- 1923
File contains one notebook with loose note and correspondence tucked in.
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- Series
- 1930 - 1939
Series contains progress reports, publications, and correspondence relating to Alexander Leighton's beaver studies.
- Item
- [1930-1939?]
Item is a diary kept by Alexander Leighton between October 1935 and March 1936 describing the behaviour and feeding habits of a pair of beavers kept by Alex and James (Jimmy Hutchins?) for observation.
Beaver physiology and anatomy notes
- MS-13-86, Box 98, Folder 3
- File
- [1930-1939?]
File contains anatomical drawings of beavers and notes on beaver biology.
The winds are blowing in my head / by Eber Morse
- MS-13-86, Box 92, Folder 4
- File
- 1938
File contains a manuscript for Eber Morse's story. Also contains notes and correspondence.
- MS-13-86, Box 82, Folder 5
- File
- 1939 - 1990
File consists of communications, research notes, newspaper clippings, and boat racing information to be used in writing an article on the history of log canoes.
- MS-13-86, Box 58, Folder 5
- File
- 1939 - 1951
File contains correspondence with or about James S. Tyhurst. Also contains course materials, project outlines and proposals, curricula vitae, research notes, and meeting transcriptions.
- MS-13-86, Box 84, Folder 9
- File
- 1941
File contains notes and an outline for a film on occupational therapy. Also includes correspondence regarding the film.
- MS-13-86, Box 59, Folder 23
- File
- 1942 - 1982
File contains correspondence with or about William Foote Whyte. Also contains project and study summaries, Whyte's curriculum vitae, research reports, chapter manuscripts, research proposals, research plan outlines, and papers titled "Toward a new model for social research on health in Latin America" and "Developing the national survey for Peru: notes on planning discussion."
- MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 5
- Item
- [1949?]
Item is a three-page summary written by H.L. Kohn.
Kohn's notes and references about the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory
- MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 3
- Item
- [1949?]
Item is a set of handwritten notes dated 21 November.
Typed notes from "The Screening of Psychoneurotics in the Army: Technical Development of Tests"
- MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 4
- Item
- [1949?]
Item is a typed set of notes about "The Screening of Psychoneurotics in the Army: Technical Development of Tests," chapter 13 of The American Soldier, Volume IV.
Personality tests and psychoneurotic screening
- MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9
- File
- [1949?]
File contains preliminary research plans, a seminar report on psychological testing, a multiphase personality inventory, and an excerpt on psychoneurotic screening in the Army, all written or originating with M.L. Kohn (1928-2021), who may have been a graduate or post-doctoral student at Cornell, working under Alexander Leighton.
- Subseries
- 1950 - 2018
Subseries contains manuscript materials, correspondence, research notes, and reviews regarding the publication of Alexander Leighton's novel "Come Near."
- MS-13-86, Box 43, Folder 6
- File
- 1950 - 2000
File contains correspondence with or about Laila Shukry El Hamamsy. Also includes academic records, study participant information, a pamphlet on the American University at Cairo's Social Research Center, a curriculum vitae for Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Aziz El-Meligi.
- MS-13-86, Box 53, Folder 24
- File
- 1951 - 1987
File contains correspondence with or about George Roper. Also includes a manuscript for "The teacher's role in relation to sociological and psychological stress," discussion transcriptions, and an outline for a case-finding device.
- MS-13-86, Box 84, Folder 14
- File
- 1951
File contains notes and manuscripts for various projects titled "The wreck of the Aspiration," "A walk in the woods," and others.
- MS-13-86, Box 85, Folder 5
- File
- 1952 - 1959
File contains research notes and manuscripts for various writing projects.
- MS-13-86, Box 58, Folder 6
- File
- 1952 - 1975
File contains correspondence with or about James S. Tyhurst. Also contains course materials, project outlines and proposals, curricula vitae, research notes, meeting transcriptions, case notes, and manuscripts.
- Series
- 1956 - 2002
Series is comprised of materials related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Research Project in the Western Region and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women. In the Cornell-Aro study, modeled on the Stirling County Study, Leighton’s team analyze the mental health trends of Nigerians living in both major cities and small rural villages via interviews, surveys, and observations. The Role of Women study may possibly be considered a ‘sub-study’ of the Cornell-Aro study, as it uses much of the same research material supplemented by new data. Materials present include correspondence, memoranda, datasets, research notes, fieldnotes reports, speeches, photographs, forms, applications, surveys and questionnaires, medical documents, affiliated studies, and comparative analyses.
Other studies for comparative analysis
- Subseries
- 1956 - 1966
Subseries contains other related psychiatric studies used for cross-cultural comparisons with the Cornell-Aro Nigerian study data.
- MS-13-86, Box 94, Folder 4
- File
- 1958 - 1988
Fie contains research notes and manuscript drafts for Alexander Leighton's book on mental illness prevention. Also included related correspondence.
Research and other relevant articles
- MS-13-86, Box 94, Folder 5
- File
- 1958 - 1990
File contains research notes and manuscript drafts. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's other articles on illness prevention and community development and rehabilitation.
- Series
- 1958 - 2010
Series contains materials related to the development of Alexander Leighton's book on the prevention of mental illness. Documents include manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, and copies of past publications.
Yoruba-Stirling data comparisons
- Subseries
- 1958 - 1969
Subseries contains datasets, computer printouts, notes, and analysis guidelines comparing psychiatric and social statistics from the Nigerian and Stirling County studies.
Notes on data sampling considerations in Nigeria
- MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 11
- File
- 1959 - 1960
File contains guidelines and suggestions for selecting diverse and unbiased data samples and determining the value of data collected.
Notes on considering villages to be integrated or disintegrated and modern or traditional
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 11
- File
- [between 1959-1961]
File contains information on 14 villages to aid researchers in determining whether they should be considered integrated or disintegrated and modern or traditional. Information is based on population, education, religion, industry, and family structure.
- Subseries
- 1959 - 1961
Subseries contains files of information for each village in the study. Includes social and historical research notes and population medical survey results. Also contains hand-drawn maps and lists of respondents' names.
- MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 8
- File
- 1959
File contains documents relating to Alexander Leighton's 1959 trip to Nigeria. Includes a photograph, several bundles of research notes, schedules, graphic materials, and patient medical notes. Includes an article from the New York Times on the Nigerian election, and no. 10 of the Western Nigerian Illustrated quarterly publication featuring an article about psychiatric treatment at the Aro Hospital. Also includes an envelope labelled 'thought disorder pills' containing five spherical pills.
Information on population of Yoruba villages
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 10
- File
- [between 1959 and 1961]
File consists of what appears to be an excerpt from a Yoruba rural study estimating the number of people over 20 years of age in Yoruba villages.
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 17
- File
- 1960 - 1961
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Agada. File includes three hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 19
- File
- 1960 - 1961
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ilewo. Researchers considered the village traditional.
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 20
- File
- 1960 - 1961
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ilewo. File includes one hand-drawn map of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 22
- File
- 1960 - 1961
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ashipa. File includes three hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 24
- File
- 1960 - 1961
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Shodeke. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 26
- File
- 1960 - 1961
File contains social and historical research notes, field notes, and population medical survey results for the village of Opeji. File includes four hand-drawn maps of the village.
- MS-13-86, Box 3, Folder 11
- File
- 1960
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Olukanku.
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 8
- File
- [196-]
File contains a research proposal for the project along with filled social data questionnaires and semantic differentials questionnaires. Also contains 8 photographs of Nigerian individuals.
Comparison of 1961 and 1963 data
- Subseries
- 1960 - 1972
Subseries consists of datasets, statistical analysis, and correspondence regarding sample comparisons from the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies.
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 23
- File
- 1960 - 1961
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Joko. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.
- MS-13-86, Box 3, Folder 7
- File
- 1960
File contains social and historical research notes for the village of Momo.
- Subseries
- 1960 - 1972
Subseries includes data for and analyses of socioeconomic aspects of Yoruba women's lives (education, migration, social class, health, children, husbands, religion, family, etc.). The 1963 data seems to be part of another study, referred to in several files as "The 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women," that either piggybacked off the Cornell-Aro study or was somehow included as a sub-project.
Information on respondents' husbands' occupation and education
- MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 10
- File
- 1960 - 1964
File contains notes, charts, and datasets tracking the occupations and education levels of the husbands of female study respondents. File also includes correspondence between researchers and Aro Hospital regarding education and migration statistics.
- MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 12
- File
- 1960 - 1961
File consists mainly of study notes for learning Yoruba. Also contains several English-Yoruba glossaries of common words and phrases.
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 13
- File
- 1960 - 1961
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Apena. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 14
- File
- 1960 - 1961
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ikereku. File includes three hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 18
- File
- 1960 - 1961
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Akaa. File includes three hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 21
- File
- 1960 - 1961
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Kutaw. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.
- MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 25
- File
- 1960 - 1961
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ijeja Kenta. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.
- MS-13-86, Box 3, Folder 8
- File
- 1960
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ojo.
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