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Requirements August 1911 until October 1914

I. 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.

Requirements October 1914 until November 1932

I. Know and recognize the tracks of ten different animals or birds to be found in his vicinity. For boys living in the city the tracks of domestic animals or birds may be counted.

2. Track an animal for one-quarter mile over ordinary ground without snow. In special cases where large wild animals cannot be found, a trail made by "tracking irons," or by a boy on stilts, may be substituted.

3. Make clear, recognizable photographs of live wild animals or birds, and score twenty-five points on the following basis:

(a) Each different species of wild bird, photographed on the nest, or of young birds, to count two points;

(b) Each species of adult wild bird, photographed away from the nest to count three points;

(c) Each species of small wild animal to count four points.

(d) Each species of wild animal larger than a woodchuck to count five points.