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Jeremy Bentham 1

As requested in his will, Bentham's body was dissected as part of a public anatomy lecture. Afterward, the skeleton and head were preserved and stored in a wooden cabinet called the "Auto-icon" at UCL, with the skeleton padded out with hay and dressed in Bentham's clothes. Today he was taken out of his case for a clean and renovation

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Uploaded on November 8, 2012
Taken on November 8, 2012