Collection of William Alexander Francis Browne 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. [Source: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/namedef-678] Contents: Notebook, c1830-c1860; manuscript edition of 'What Asylums Were, Are and Ought to Be', c1836 c1830 - c1860