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Show Tomb of Jeremy Bentham. In University collego, London, Is a singular object thut Is preserved caro-fully caro-fully In a remote gallery Inside a glass case, which, again, is contained In a huge wooden cupboard, the doors of which aro locked and tho keys in safo custody. The relic which Is thus so zealously guarded Is described In some notes on the histoiy of the college as the "skeleton" of Jeremy nentham, "clad In the garments In which ho lived," whllo his head only is stated to have bcon 'mummified." It has always been understood that Hon! ham's body was embalmed, and In that rnso it cannot bo his mere skeleton which Is reposing there under un-der lock and key. |