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CARLOS DE LA TORRE 



Naturalist; teacher; author. 



Carlos de la Torre was born in 

 Matanzas, on the fifteenth of May, 1858, 

 and after early education at "Las Nor- 

 males" and the Colcgio "La Empresa" 

 of Matanzas, completed the requirements 

 for the Bachelor's degree at the Institute 

 of Havana in 1876, then entered the 

 National University where his brilliant 

 scholarship won him many prizes and 

 where, in 1881, he received the licentiate 

 in Medicine, in Pharmacy, and in Natural 

 Sciences. The degree of Doctor of Natural 

 Science he obtained at the Central Uni- 

 versity of Madrid two years later, with a 

 thesis upon Distribucidn geogrdjica de la 

 fauna malacologica terrestre de Cuba. 



His vocation for Natural History was 

 furthered by the learned Francisco Ximeno, 



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