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Otis Barrett

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Otis Warren Barrett was an American agriculturalist. He spent his early career collecting insects in Mexico, where he became a museum curator and agent for that country's exhibition at the 1900 Paris Exposition. In 1901 Barrett went to Puerto Rico as a US Department of Agriculture entomologist and botanist, and afterwards worked with the department's Office of Seed and Plant Introduction. In 1908 he was appointed director of agriculture for the Portuguese colony of Mozambique.

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