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CUBANS OF TO-DAY 



Spanish Marine the meteorological service 

 of the Antilles by which he gained the rank 

 of Frigate Captain with which he retired. 



When the Spanish rule in Cuba ceased, 

 Carbonell was appointed by the U. S. 

 Government, Assistant in the Weather 

 Bureau of the Antilles, with headquarters 

 at Havana. On the establishment of the 

 Republic in 1902, he was called upon by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture to take charge of 

 the service of climatology and crops which 

 the Intervention government handed over 

 to Cuba. 



In 1905 he was placed in charge of the 

 Meteorological Service by which he became 

 Director of the National Observatory, and 

 this he inaugurated on the spot which it 

 now occupies in the Loma de Casa Blanca, 

 of which the exact geographical position 

 is: Latitude 20, 9' N. Y. ; Longitude 5 h. 

 29 m 23.4 sec. W. of the Meridian of 

 Greenwich. 



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