Francisco de Assis IGLESIAS

Background

IGLESIAS, Francisco de Assis was born on January 6, 1889 in Piracicaba, Sâo Paulo, Brazil.

Education

Graduated Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Piracicaba, 1909.

Career

Assistant, experimental station of cotton growing, Coroatá, state of Maranhâo, 1915. Returned to Institute Butantan, 1918. Named as superintendent and organizet;, sowing service, ministry of agriculture, 1920.

Organizer and general director of forestry service, 1925. Organized service of silkworm development. Sâo Paulo, 1935; reorganized forestry service and created national parks, 1939.

Director of agriculture instruction, Sâo Paulo, 1942. Director of silkworm development, Campinas.

Membership

Member: Conselho de Fiscaliza- çâo das Expediçôes Artísticas e Científicas do Brasil, Société Entomologique (France), Institute Histórico e Geográfico do Piaui, Institute Histórico e Geográfico de Sâo Paulo, Society Nacional de Agricultura, Society Nacional de Agronomía.

Connections

Father:

Joáo Iglesias

Mother:

Anna College

Spouse:

Elza de Assis Iglesias