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of Matanzas, who opened to young de la 

 Torre his museum and fine library, and by 

 his teachers Ramon Forns, Rafael Arango, 

 and Juan Gundlach. He also acknowledges 

 a great debt to Felipe Poey in whose in- 

 spiring society he worked and whom he 

 succeeded in the chair of Zobgraphy in the 

 University of Havana. Before the end of 

 his twentieth year he had discovered two 

 new species of mollusk which were named 

 in his honor Cylindretta Tor re i, Arango, 

 1876, and Cyclostoma Torreianum, Gund- 

 lach, 1878. 



Simultaneously with his enthusiasm for 

 natural science grew his interest in teach- 

 ing. He taught in "Los Normales" and 

 "San Carlos" (Matanzas) and "La Gran 

 Antilla" and "El Progreso" (Havana) 

 and was one of the founders of the School of 

 Arts and Crafts in Havana. As the result of 

 competitive tests he was appointed in 18S0 

 Assistant in Natural and Physico-Chemi- 

 cal Sciences at the Institute of Havana, 

 and ; in 1883, Professor of Natural History 

 and Physiology in the Institute of Porto 

 Rico, which latter position he filled one 



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