Cod Gallery

Fish Pond

July 1926: A man angling in the fish pond at Port Logan, Dumfries and Galloway. The tidal fish pond was built in the 18th century and tame cod can be fed by hand when summoned by a bell. Port Logan also has a botanical gardens which has grown sub-tropical plants for over a century. (Photo by Alfred Hind Robinson/A H Robinson/Getty Images)

Der Tannhauser (1200-1305), poet and Crusader. Fol.164r. Cod

Der Tannhauser (1200-1305), poet and Crusader with a Greek cross on the layer, the symbol of the knights of the Teutonic Order. Fol.164r. Codex Manesse (ca.1300) by Rudiger Manesse and his son Johannes. University of Heidelberg. Library. Germany

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Cod, Gadus morhua, and whiting, Merlangius merlangus

Cod, Gadus morhua, and whiting, Merlangius merlangus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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