John Atkinson, you were right the first time ("Letters,"
Stereophile, December 1997, p.17, footnote 1): Jeremy Bentham is, indeed, the famous English philosopher and legal theorist whose mummified remains are preserved at the University of London. Sitting in a large glass display case, Bentham has been holding court since his death in 1832. As you noted, Bentham looks deceptively like a waxwork. But this is because his head, in fact,
is made of wax. The original, rumor has it, suffered through one very macabre rugby game played long ago by mischievous students.
