Common torpedo mb-height 2786 Interior view showing a man

Interior view showing a man seated at a table with a drink

Interior view showing the staircase

Hunting was a favourite topic for Punch cartoons

Members of the National Club

Common torpedo mb-height 2786 Interior view showing a manMarine 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).