atura! History Society 
Meets Washington's Birthday 
b The 250th meeting of this Society 
will be held Wednesday, February 
22, 1956 (Washington’s Birthday) at 
the Gorgas Institute, Panama City, 
at 8*00 p.m. 
At this meeting will be shown two 
large reels^ of movies entitled “Pri¬ 
mitive Darien — Past and Present.” 
The pictures were made by Mr. Ri¬ 
chard H. Stewart of the National 
Geographic Society, and cover Dr. 
Mathew Sterling’s fourth archeolo¬ 
gical expedition into the interior of 
Panama. 
Dr. Sterling, Director of the Bu¬ 
reau of American Ethnology, Smith¬ 
sonian Institute, is well known to 
most of our members, having spoken 
to us on several,occasion. Unfor¬ 
tunately he will not be with us at 
this meeting, but it is hoped that he 
will have a 30 page commentary 
which will be read by Miss Brick- 
man. 
According to Dr. Zetek, this film 
is the most complete ever producted 
on archeology in Panama. It is a 
copy of a film which has been shown 
only once, at the Smithsonian Insti¬ 
tution, and was presented to Prof. 
Alejandro Mendez of the Panama 
National Museum* who has very gra¬ 
ciously loaned the film to this So 
ciety. 
* ‘ 4 
To this meeting members may 
bring friends who may be interest¬ 
ed in joining the Society. 
