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Show LEFT A CURfOUS WILL Property Left to Trustees to Continue Publication of His Works. London, Jan. 13. Herbert Spencer's will is a curleus document. It directs that his body shall be placed in a coffin with a loose lid and cremated and the ahes buried, all without any species of religious relig-ious ceremony. ; All the rights anH property in his books and Investments are given to the trustees, Hon. Auberon Herbert, Dr. Henry Charlton Charl-ton Bastian and David Duncan, with instructions in-structions to employ the yearly revenue "in resuming and continuing difring such period as may be needed for fulfilling my express wishes, but not exceeding the lifetime of all descendants of Queen Victoria, Vic-toria, who shall be living at my decease, and of the survivors and survivor of them and for twenty-one years after 'the death of such survivor, the publication of the existing parts of my 'Descriptive Sociology,' So-ciology,' and the compilation and publication publica-tion of the fresh parts thereof upon the plan followed in the parts already published." pub-lished." I Afterward all v copyrights, stereotypes, I etc.. are to be auctioneu and the proceeds divided among a number of scientific societies. so-cieties. The will orders that Herbert Spencer's Autobiography., is to be Ds'nlfshed simultaneously simul-taneously in Great Britain and the United States, and requests Dav'd Duncan to write a biography in one volume, of moderate size. 1 , 1 |