Show A STRANGE WILL VILL As the result of a queer will wIll made made over years ago the dressed up skeleton of Jeremy Bentham still presIdes at meet meet- ings meetings of the trustees of UniversIty College Hospital in London ac- ac according cording to RIpley of believe It or not fame Bentham was precocious as a chIld and received his bachelors bachelor's degree from Oxford at 15 He became the leading writer of hIS day on and government He traveled widely and andas ands as s as recent recen ed everywhere wIth great acclaim He as as a humanitarian interested m in the condition of the poor In prIson reform and m in many phIlanthropies He founded the mentIoned five years before his death m in 1832 and his will provided for the unusual disposition of his body which was carrIed out His clothed skeleton SIts m in a chair at the head of the table around which the hospital trustees meet his skull resting In a glass case on the floor between his legs whIle an artifICial head shoulders reproduced from flom a mask of his real leal features IS placed upon his Thus he has been a sIlent member of the hospital board for years whIle on the boards board's minutes he is recorded as present but not voting Bentham lIved to be 84 years of age and left his entire for for- fortune tune to the hospital has faithfully observed the conditions of the strange will under WhICh the gift was made |