He studied at the University of Havana, where he obtained the degree of Doctor in Natural Sciences. He also obtained a Doctorate in Medicine in 1899. He taught at that institution: Geology, Paleontology, Zoography of invertebrates and vertebrates, and Anthropology, among other disciplines. He was a consistent defender of the theory of Darwinism and Genetics studies. He was a member of important institutions, such as: the Anthropological Society of the Island of Cuba, the Royal Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Havana and the Society of Natural History "Felipe Poey", where he presented numerous papers on Anthropology, Ethnography, Evolution, Genetics, Mineralogy, Psychiatry and Zoology.

Royal Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Havana. 

It was officially constituted by order of the Spanish Crown by a document issued in Madrid by means of a document issued in Madrid on November 6, 1860. Its solemn inauguration took place one year later, on May 14, 1861, in the auditorium of the University of Havana. Thus culminated a process of almost 40 years of intense negotiations of a group of Creoles before the peninsular authorities. After meeting in several places in Havana, among them the houses of its directors, the Institution was installed in the old convent of San Agustín, at 460 Cuba Street.

Felipe Poey Cuban Society of Natural History

It was founded on May 26, 1913 in Havana, on the 115th anniversary of Felipe Poey's birth, at the initiative of his favorite disciple, Carlos de la Torre. For 48 years, it brought together the country's naturalists and encouraged the presentation of works and the holding of debates on mineralogy, geology, botany, zoology, anthropology, paleontology, agronomy and their applications. His Memoirs, published between 1915 and 1961, are very important. It ceased to exist in the latter year. Then its functions were transferred to the Felipe Poey Museum of Natural History created by the Cuban Academy of Sciences.