Elizabeth Bastian, a New York spinster, died in June, 1910. By her will she cut off her sister and two brothers with a dollar each and left the greater part of her fortune, $65,000, to build a mausoleum in order that she might “have a splendid house to live in when dead.” Her will has been attacked and her wishes may be thwarted. The sister and brothers of the decedent, who were bequeathed one dollar each by her, recently began an action in the Surrogate’s Court to set aside the probate of Miss Bastian’s will on the ground that she was mentally incompetent at the time of its execution. They assert, through John Path, their lawyer, that the aged spinster was a monomanic who lived frugally that she might have a magnificent tomb in which to lie after death. This contention, they claim, is supported by her habits in life and the provisions of her will. When alive, it is alleged, she delighted to take her friends to Woodlawn Cemetery, where she owned a $10,000 plot, and pointing to the spot would say: “There’s where I’m going to live in luxury when I die.” Her will provided that a cousin with whom she lived should have $500 and his wife a like sum. Three dollars was to be distributed among her sister and brothers, “because I have been treated with abject scorn by my relatives,” and $50,000 was set aside for the mausoleum. The rest of the New York estate was left in trust to the Woodlawn Cemetery Association to ornament and care for the mausoleum. BEQUESTS OF SKULLS Many testators have bequeathed their skulls to their friends or to public institutions. Cartouche requested, when on the wheel, that his skull might be preserved in the Genovevan monastery at Paris, and accordingly it is to be seen to this day in the library of that building, as Eugene Aram’s skull is daily seen and handled in York Castle. Professor Morlet of Lausanne desired that his head should be sent to the anatomical museum of Berne, and he particularly requested his name should be distinctly engraven thereon, lest it should be mistaken for that of any other individual. Professor Byrd Powell, phrenologist and physician, bequeathed to one of his lady pupils, Mrs. Kinsey of Cincinnati, his “head to be removed from his body for her use, by Mr. H. T. Kekeler.” The task of decapitation was, however, performed (some weeks after the body had been relegated to the vault) by Dr. Curtis.