DE LA TORRE 



House chose him for presiding officer. 

 In the same year he retired from public 

 life to devote himself to scientific pursuits. 



When the Government of the American 

 Intervention designated Supt. Frye and 

 Lieut. Hanna to organize the Cuban pub- 

 lic school system (1899), Dr. de la Torre was 

 an able cooperator: he enlisted the aid 

 of his distinguished countrymen, Aguayo, 

 Borrero Echevarria, Vidal Morales, and 

 others, and prepared the Manual para los 

 examines de maestros which soon was fol- 

 lowed by Libros de lectura y lenguaje, La 

 Geografia de Cuba, La Historia de Cuba, La 

 Instruction Moral y Civic a. 



In 1900 he was delegate for the Province 

 of Havana at the Paris Exposition; in 1904, 

 Commissioner of Public Instruction at the 

 Exposition of St. Louis; in 1906, delegate 

 to the Tenth International Geological Con- 

 gress in session in Mexico; in 19 10, he rep- 

 resented the Government of Cuba at the 

 Eighth International Zoological Congress 

 at Gratz. 



In 1909 he proved the existence of Juras- 

 sic strata in the western part of Cuba and 



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