ation to National Headquarters.

Sculpture

[Illustration: Bust insignia. (tr)]

To obtain a merit badge for Sculpture a scout must

1. Make a clay model from an antique design.

2. Make a drawing and a model from nature, these models to be faithful
to the original and of artistic design.

Seamanship

[Illustration: Anchor insignia. (tr)]

To obtain a merit badge for Seamanship

1. Be able to tie rapidly six different knots.

2. Splice ropes.

3. Use a palm and needle.

4. Fling a rope coil.

5. Be able to row, pole, scull, and steer a boat; also bring a boat
properly alongside and make fast.

6. Know how to box the compass, read a chart, and show use of parallel
rules and dividers.

7. Be able to state direction by the stars and sun.

8. Swim fifty yards with shoes and clothes on.

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9. Understand the general working of steam and hydraulic winches, and
have a knowledge of weather wisdom and of tides.

Signaling

[Illustration: Signal flags insignia. (tr)]

To obtain a merit badge for Signaling a scout must

1. Send and receive a message in two of the following systems of
signaling: Semaphore, Morse, or Myer, not fewer than twenty-four
letters per minute.

2. Be able to give and read signals by sound.

3. Make correct smoke and fire signals.

Stalking

[Illustration: Leaf insignia. (tr)]

To obtain a merit badge for Stalking a scout must

1. Take a series of twenty photographs of wild animals or birds from
life, and develop and print them.

2. Make a group of sixty species of wild flowers, ferns, or grasses,
dried and mounted in a book and correctly named.

3. Make colored drawings of twenty flowers, ferns, or grasses, or
twelve sketches from life of animals or birds, original sketches as
well as the finished pictures to be submitted.

Surveying

[Illustration: Theodolite insignia. (tr)]

To obtain a merit badge for Surveying a scout must

1. Map correctly from the country itself the main features of half a
mile of road, with 440 yards each side to a scale of two feet to the
mile, and afterward draw same map from memory.

2. Be able to measure the height of a tree, telegraph pole, and church
steeple, describing method adopted.

3. Measure width of a river.

4. Estimate distance apart of two objects a known distance away and
unapproachable.

5. Be able to measure a gradient.

Swimming

[Illustration: Swimmer insignia. (tr)]

To obtain a merit badg