| Description | Browne was President of the Plinian Society, Edinburgh, Scotland and a physician at Stirling, Scotland in 1830. He was also the superintendent of Montrose lunatic asylum; superintendent of Crichton Institute at Dumfries in 1839; and Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland, 1857–70.
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Contents: Notebook, c1830-c1860; manuscript edition of 'What Asylums Were, Are and Ought to Be', c1836 |