Famed philosopher Jeremy Bentham — an oddball British gentleman who requested that his dead body be mummified and put on public display — is missing some rings.
To be exact, exactly 20 memorial rings that he gifted to intellectuals, scientists and leaders when he died in 1832 are missing. And now, researchers are asking the public to help track them down.
These rings aren’t ordinary, either — at least by today’s standards. Each ring features a silhouette of Bentham’s head, his engraved signature and, on the reverse side, a glazed compartment containing a lock of his hair.
The rings “help to highlight how attitudes to death and memory have changed over time,” Subhadra Das, a collections curator at University College London (UCL), where Bentham’s mummified body is on display, said in a statement. Read more.
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