sentences:  He regarded public education as part of his duties, and gave a series of lectures which became enormously popular and influential.In 1837, five lectures were published together under the title "What Asylums Were, Are and Ought To Be"; this book came to the attention of the Dumfries philanthropist Elizabeth Crichton.She travelled to Montrose, interviewed Browne and offered him the equivalent post at the Crichton Royal in Dumfries.