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Anatomy, in the Preparatory School of 

 Medicine at Havana. He obtained his 

 degree of Licentiate in medicine with 

 first-class honors and afterwards the degree 

 of Doctor of Natural Sciences. At the 

 close of 1895 he proceeded to Europe and 

 graduated as Doctor of Medicine at the 

 Central Faculty of Madrid. From this 

 city he went on to Paris to specialize in 

 the study of botany, syphilitic diseases, 

 and diseases of the skin. He continued to 

 Manila and this trip was wrongly inter- 

 preted as involving him in questions of 

 Cuban politics. He was tried by a court 

 martial and was sent to Barcelona. After 

 a month he was freed and he then went to 

 France and from there to Venezuela, where 

 he practiced his profession until he returned 

 to Cuba in 1900. He was nominated after 

 a competition to the chair of Natural His- 

 tory in the Institute of Havana, and also 

 assumed charge of the Botanical Garden 

 and Museum of the Institute. 



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