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CUBANS OF TO-DAY 



Senor Figarola is a member and one of 

 the founders of the Academy of History 

 and is keeper of its Annals. He is also a 

 consulting member of the Permanent 

 Council of the American Congress of Bib- 

 liography and History of Buenos Aires. 



He is the author of the following works: 

 Biografia de don Saturnino Valverde (Ha- 

 bana, 1880); Guia OJicial de la Exposition 

 de Matanzas (Matanzas, 1881); Biblio- 

 grafia de Rafael Merchdn (Habana, 1905); 

 El Dr. Ramon Meza y Sudrez Incldn, 

 noticia bibliografica (Habana, 1909), and 

 Cartografia cubana del British Museum, sl 

 chronological catalogue of charts, plans, 

 and maps from the sixteenth to the nine- 

 teenth century. He collaborated upon the 

 Diccionario Biogrdfico cubano, de Cal- 

 cagno (New York-Habana, 1878-86); he 

 arranged the materials of the Obras de Rosa 

 Kruger (T. I. Habana, 1883), and as part 

 of the Biblioteca de La Ilustracion cubana 

 published the Poesias de Julia Perez de 

 Monies de Oca (Barcelona [1887]); Los 

 negros, de Antonio Bachiller y Morales 

 (Barcelona [1887]); Seis conferencias, de 



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