Common torpedo mb-height 2786 Hunting was a favourite topic

Hunting was a favourite topic for Punch cartoons

Interior view showing the staircase

Here we see Presidents Lincoln and Davis fightin in their shop doorway and John Bull impatiently tells them that he will go over the road to the Indian supplier instead

Reception for the Sultan of Turkey

Common torpedo mb-height 2786 Hunting was a favourite topicMarine biological studies of the Common torpedo (Torpedo torpedo) or electric ray, here styled Torpedo ocellata. Figures 1 3 showing the animal from above with its distinctive spots, or ocellae. Figure 4 a detail of an air hole or spiracle. Plate 1 from the monograph Die Gattung Torpedo in ihren naturhistorischen antiquarischen Beziehungen [The natural history and antiquarian relations of the genus Torpedo], by J. F. M. von Olfers (Berlin, 1831).