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later designated to write the official report 

 on "Sugar and Tobacco at the Paris Ex- 

 position" which appeared in iqoi. 



On his return to Cuba, Trelles was 

 elected Member of the Council of Ma- 

 tanzas, but he soon discovered that he 

 had no calling for politics and at the end 

 of three months retired in disgust. 



In 1900 he had begun to collect the 

 materials for his great work Bibliografia 

 Cubana, on which he was continuously 

 occupied for sixteen years. In 1907 he 

 began its publication in parts and com- 

 pleted the issue of the twelfth and conclud- 

 ing volume in 191 7. The bibliography 

 includes thirty-three thousand books and 

 pamphlets by nine thousand authors and 

 is the only work of its kind hitherto com- 

 pleted in any country of America an 

 achievement due solely to the energy and 

 sacrifice of the author; for no aid of any 

 sort was supplied him by the government. 



In 191 8 he began a new series of bib- 

 liographical publications, the Biblioteca 

 cientifica cubana of which the first volume 

 has already appeared and the second is in 



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