[1] In 1893 Leo Farmar obtained certificates in book-keeping and arithmetic from the Society of Arts Polytechnic Centre in Dover.
Being almost immediately transferred to the Herbarium, he remained there until January 1, 1906, then joining an expedition to West Africa ...[2]Farmar was the botanist for the First West African Expedition of Liverpool University's Institute of Commercial Research in the Tropics.
Its purpose was to "study problems connected with rubber, cocoa, fibre, and maize."
[1] In 1906 Eric Drabble and Farmar were the two members of the economic botany section of the scientific staff of Liverpool University's Institute of Commercial Research in the Tropics.
He was to have joined Sir Alfred Lewis Jones's expedition to Africa for the purpose of investigating the possibilities for growing cotton there.