SCOUT - PROFICIENCY BADGES - S's

S13

Stalker
Introduced 1908

Required: Four alternatives: 1) A scout must take a series of twenty photographs of wild animals or birds from life, and develop and print them. 2) A scout must make a collection of sixty species of wild flowers, ferns, grasses, dried and mounted in a book and correctly named. 3) A scout must make coloured drawings of twenty flowers, ferns, or grasses, or twelve sketches from life of animals and birds. Original sketches, as well as finished pictures, to be submitted. 4) A scout must be able to name sixty different kinds of animals, insects, reptiles, or birds in a museum or zoological garden, or from unnamed coloured plates, and give particulars of the lives, habits, appearance, and markings of twenty of them.

a. Circular, serge cloth, no wording

b. Circular, felt, no wording

S13/1

Stalker
Re-designed 1919
Discontinued 1968

a. Circular, felt, "Boy Scouts"

b. Rectangular, ribbon, unbound, "Boy Scouts"

c. Circular, ribbon, bound, "Boy Scouts"

d. Circular, printed, "Boy Scouts"

e. Circular, embroidered, cut edge, "Boy Scouts"

S14

Stamp Collector
Introduced 1951
Discontinued 1968

a. Circular, embroidered on melton, "Boy Scouts"

b. Circular, ribbon, bound, "Boy Scouts"

c. Circular, embroidered, cut edge, "Boy Scouts"

S15

Starman
Introduced 1909
Discontinued 1968

Required: A scout must have a general knowledge of the nature and movement of the stars. He must be able to point out and name six principal constellations. Find the north by means of other stars than the Pole star in case of that star being obscured by clouds, etc., and tell the hour of the night by the stars or moon. He must have a general knowledge of the positions of the earth, sun and moon, and of tides, eclipses, meteors, comets, sun-spots, planets.

a. Circular, serge cloth, no wording

b. Circular, felt, no wording

c. Circular, felt, "Boy Scouts"

d. Rectangular, ribbon, unbound, "Boy Scouts"

e. Circular, ribbon, bound, "Boy Scouts"

f. Circular, printed, "Boy Scouts"

g. Circular, embroidered, cut edge, "Boy Scouts"

Stationary Engineer see Engineer

S16

Stockman
Introduced 1919
Discontinued 1968

a. Circular, felt, no wording

b. Circular, felt, "Boy Scouts"

c. Rectangular, ribbon, unbound, "Boy Scouts"

d. Circular, ribbon, bound, "Boy Scouts"

e. Circular, printed, "Boy Scouts"

f. Circular, embroidered, cut edge, "Boy Scouts"