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year then returned to take the professor- 

 ships of Comparative Anatomy and of 

 Zoography of Mollusks and Zoophites in 

 the University of Havana. 



In 1886 he joined the Anthropological 

 Society of Cuba and in 1889 the Academy 

 of Sciences, on the latter occasion deliver- 

 ing a learned discourse on Consider aciones 

 anatomieas sol re los huesos de la cabeza del 

 manjuari. Before the same Academy in 

 1890, he presented an Infcrme sol re la en- 

 fermedad de los eoeoleros, and a year later a 

 report, illustrated with many archaeological 

 objects there discovered, of his Excursion 

 antropologiea a las cavernas de Mai si 

 (Oriente), from which he had just returned. 



In 1893 he was appointed "Judge of 

 Awards" in the section of Mineralogy and 

 Geology of the Chicago Columbian Exposi- 

 tion. In 1895 he opened the scholastic 

 year at the University of Havana with an 

 address on Clasilieaeion de los animates ob- 

 servados por Colon y los primeros explora- 

 dores de Cuba. 



Persecutions by the Spanish colonial 

 government moved him to leave the coun- 



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