EditorialAtlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus (endangered). Tunny, Scomber thynnus. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C. and J. Rivington, London, 1802-1808.
EditorialBoswell Family Album: mostly cartes-de-visite portraits, Antoine Claudet (French, 1797 - 1867), Henri Claudet (English, 1828 - 1880), H. Hughes (British, active 1850s - 1860s), John Eastman Palmer (British, about 1830 - about 1911), Pierre Eug?ne Fixon...
EditorialSkipjack tuna or bonito, Katsuwonus pelamis 1, tuna, Thunnus thynnus 2, and long-fin tunny, Thunnus alalunga 3. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849.
EditorialThere are many petroglyphs on Easter Island; hidden in meadows and overgrown by bushes they are hard to find. The symbols engraved in natural rocks are usually connected to fishing: sailboats, fish, octopus, fish hooks and large seabirds. A large fish,...