Bentham’s body

The auto-icon.  “At the end of the South Cloisters of the main building of [University College London] stands a wooden cabinet, which has been a source of curiosity and perplexity to visitors. The cabinet contains Bentham’s preserved skeleton, dressed in his own clothes, and surmounted by a wax head. “

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