Archives Catalogue

Societies, committees, task forces, and associations

Series
1939 - 2013

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series consists of documents relating to the various boards and committees of which Alexander Leighton was a member.

Sociocultural variables and psychiatric disorder in Yoruba men

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 13
File
[1965?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of charts and data tables of sociocultural statistics for Yoruba men.

Solvent inhalation / Alexander Murchison : [manuscript]

MS-13-30, SF Box 65, Folder 12, Item 6
Item
1969

Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds

Item consists of a draft typescript of a short paper outlining research regarding solvent inhalation addiction compiled by Dr. Alexander Murchison in February 1969. The item lists the substances most often used, outlines the "usual procedure" for inhaling solvents, addresses initial results and subsequent side-effects faced by those who engage in solvent inhalation, as well as determining the sort of person who may be susceptible to engaging in solvent inhalation.

Some aspects of technological change in relation to socio-cultural organization and personality patterning / by Albert Erha Imohiosen

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 8
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Speech by Alexander Leighton upon arrival in Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 7
File
[1960?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an English-Yoruba script for a speech delivered by Alexander Leighton upon his arrival in Nigeria.

Statement of project

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 4
File
[1953?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains three project proposals for psychiatric research studies.

Statistical analysis of enlightenment, education, and literacy (for Cornell-Aro book, some used)

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 6
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains charts and tables of village education and literacy data analysis.

Statistical tests and RIDIT tables

Subseries
1961 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries consists mainly of datasets and calculations for socioeconomic value from the 1961 Cornell-Aro Nigerian data samples.

Statistical tests on change and disorder in Yoruba men for Jane Murphy's ethos paper

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 18
File
1966 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printouts of calculations for literacy statistics. Also includes copies of publications dealing with range tests: "Multiple range and multiple f tests" by David B. Duncan, "Extensions of multiple range tests to group means with unequal numbers of replications" by Clyde Young Kramer, and "Multivariate statistical programs" by Dean J. Clyde, Elliot M. Cramer, and Richard J. Sherin.

Stirling County Study

Series
1948 - 2017

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series consists of materials relating to the Stirling County Study, particularly progress reports, but also including clippings and survey documents. Also contains photographs and slides.

Stirling County study list of categories

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 5
File
June 1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a list of data categories for the Stirling County study.

Stirling County Study Report #200 — Extracts and abstracts on "theories of culture and personality, organization-disorganization"

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 1
Item
June 14, 1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a mimeographed report removed from a three-ring binder.

Stirling County study reports

Subseries
1948 - 2007

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries consists of annual, interim, and research reports regarding the Stirling County Study's progress and research processes.

Stirling HOS analysis card and codebook 53PX (n=254)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 1
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printout datasets of Stirling County statistics. Also contains analysis cards for Stirling County psychiatric and social data.

Stirling report # - A proposal for research into the measurement of health in populations

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 6
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research proposal for further study in Stirling County, written by Alexander Leighton, Morton Beiser, Robert C. Benfari, and Jane M. Murphy.

Stirling report # - Behavioral science information

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 4
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a 5-part report on behavioral science theories and approaches.

Stirling report # - Chapter 2 : cosmos in the Gallup city dump / by Alexander Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 7
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for the second chapter of what seems to be a book by Alexander Leighton.

Stirling report #101 - Observations on methodology in community research

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 21
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a report on research methodology in the Stirling County study, written by Seymour Parker, Charles Hughes, and Robert Rapoport.

Stirling report #128 - Certain problems of data analysis, family life survey, Stirling County project / Alexander H.Leighton, Project Director

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 3
File
[1953?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on family data analysis for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #131 - Research design of the Stirling County study / G.E. McCreary

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 2
File
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File also contains a four-page memo (STI 31a) by McCreary regarding further considerations of the present research and comments of future research.

Stirling report #141 - Social science unit meetings July 8-14th, 1953

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 1
File
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on a science unit meeting for the Stirling County Study.

Stirling report #150 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — third annual report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 17
Item
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's third annual report on the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #179 - Stirling project PCS method book

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 14
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on a method book for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #182 - "Tooling-up" HOS for Stirling measurement

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 13
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an interim report on symptom data and measurement in the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #183 - Planning conference

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 12
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on a planning conference for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #192 - A proposal for a personality study and mental health assessment by the use of psychological tests of typical residence of a small town / W.H.D. Vernon

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 16
File
1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Stirling report #201 - Stirling County study in community development

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 13
File
1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Stirling report #207 - Appendix A : research

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 14
File
[1950?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Stirling report #207 - Stirling County study : Halifax hospital health survey field worker's handbook / Allister M. Macmillan, Director, Health Survey Unit

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 15
File
[1950?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Stirling report #218 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — fifth annual report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 19
Item
June 30, 1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's fifth annual report on the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #228 - Fairhaven : A self-sufficient English-speaking village

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 11
File
[1950?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Stirling report #256 - A preliminary description and analysis of the social class system of Stirling Town / Dr. A.H. Leighton and Bernard S. Cohn

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 4
File
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on social class analysis for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #27 - Memorandum: range of researchable categories of conflict in Stirling county

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 14
File
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a memorandum outlining sources of stress and conflict among respondents in Stirling County.

Stirling report #329 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — sixth annual report

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 1
Item
June 30, 1956

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's sixth annual report on the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #35 - meetings at Cornell for planning the social science program of the Stirling County study

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 9
File
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains meeting minutes for sessions at Cornell regarding further developments and programming of the Stirling County studies.

Stirling report #362 - Field report on Stirling County Study field work, 1954, by Frank W. Young

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 7
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on how to delineate the sub-groups for the Stirling County Study.

Stirling report #366 - Planning statement for Stirling County study

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 10
File
1948

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a planning statement report for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #367

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 6
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a typed transcription of an interview with lawyer Theriault.

Stirling report #38 - Chapter 4 : sociological objectives and research plan

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 16
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains the fourth chapter of one of Alexander Leighton's publications, outlining research processes of the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #42 - Handbook: The Stirling County studies in community development (indicators of social disintegration)

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 3
File
1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a handbook of social and psychiatric principles to be used by social science researchers working on the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #438 - A program for community development in Stirling County

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 9
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a research proposal for community development for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #444 - Maine-Stirling county workshop report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 11
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report from a workshop in Augusta, Maine regarding the sociocultural factors and psychiatric epidemiology of the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #446 - Clinic community report / A.L. Longaker

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 7
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report from the Stirling County community clinic.

Stirling report #448 - The Cornell Programme in Nova Scotia : questions and answers about its work

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 12
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Stirling report #452

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 8
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on the frame of reference for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #464 - Chapter v : how sick is sick?

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 6
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for a chapter in a book about the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #467 - Proposal for a program of research in mental health and mental illness / submitted by Alexander H. Leighton, M.D. and Thomas A.C. Rennie, M.D.

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 10
File
[1950?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Stirling report #54 - Stirling County Study field manual

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 15
File
1950

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research manual for field work for the Stirling County Study. The manual indicates that researchers could keep one copy of their field notes and reports for their personal or university's files and that all others remained the property of Cornell University.

Stirling report #66 - Social environment and psychiatric disorders : A plan for an epidemiological study