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The Panamanian naturalist, and historian, alike have neglected the study of the origin and evolution of the Panamanian Natural History. An assumption that has retarded such studies is the metaphysical notion that the Panamanian spirit is refractory to intellectual and scientific activities. The other one is the idea that we transport a primeval fearsome to the Woods, inherited from our Castilian past. The present study has the purpose to evaluate this assumptions in the light of the information received by our fellows citizens of nineteen century, a great deal, builders of the Panamanian nation. We assume that Charles Robert Darwin, the most remarkable figure of the British naturalism of XIX century, must be primary mentioned by our popular information media, though that role was fulfilled by the Suisse-American naturalist Louis Agassiz, the principal Darwin’s opponent in United States. We conclude from our study that the Panamanian press informed about the birth of Darwinism through the North American eyes.