Description: [view in English][edan-image:id=siris_arc_296726,size=200,left]Carlos de la Torre y la Huerta era uno de los naturalistas Cubanos mas famosos de su tiempo, siguiendo los pasos de Felipe Poey. De la Torre de la vieja escuela, con intereses amplios en la historia natural. Enfocó sus investigaciones en moluscos, especímenes vivos y paleontológicos. De la Torre colaboró por muchos
Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_6874,size=185,left]Alexander Wetmore was the sixth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He developed an early interest in natural history and published his first paper on birds at the age of thirteen. He received a B.S. from the University of Kansas (1912) and and M.S. and Ph. D. from George Washington University (1916 &