MR. ROTHSCHILD’S WILL

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 56, 30 November 1923, Page 7

MR. ROTHSCHILD’S WILL

LARGE SUM T-EFF TO BRITISH MUSEUM. London, November 28. The late Hon. Nathaniel Charles Rothschild left £2,250.000. <?n which duties amounting to £915,000 are payable. He left £lO.OOO to the British Museum to pay the salary of the custodian of a collection of parasitic insects. —Reuter.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SIMPLE FUNERAL.

(Rec. November 29. 8.10 p.m.)

London. November 29.

Mr. Rothschild in his will instructed that his funeral should be plain and simple, without an oration nr special service, procession or display of any kind. He requested his executors to make sure that he was dead by requiring a medical attendant to ent a vein or an artery. A clause in his will states that parcels of books marked “British entomological localities” shall as soon as prnctTcable after death be burned unopened. This is explained by the theory that rare specimens ar» only found in an extremely circumscribed area, perhans a single meadow, and Mr. Rothschild wished to ensure that such specimens should not be exterminated by persons merely seeking profit.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.