Original merit badges

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In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America announced 14 "Badges of Merit" in the temporary "Original edition" of the BSA Handbook:

• Ambulance, Clerk, Cycling, Electrician, Fireman, Gardener, Horseman, Marksmanship, Master-of-Arms, Musician, Pioneering, Seamanship, Signaling, and Stalker

In 1911, Master-of-Arms was dropped, 13 were retained (some with changed names), 44 new ones were added, and all became know as "Merit Badges".

This is a list of the original 57 Merit Badges issued by the Boy Scouts of America in 1911, with the surviving 1910 "Badges of Merit" in bold:

1. Agriculture
2. Angling
3. Archery
4. Architecture
5. Art
6. Astronomy
7. Athletics
8. Automobiling
9. Aviation
10. Beefarming
11. Blacksmithing
12. Bugling
13. Clerk -> Business
14. Camping
15. Carpentry
16. Chemistry
17. Civics
18. Conservation
19. Cooking
20. Craftsmanship
21. Cycling
22. Dairying
23. Electrician -> Electricity
24. Fireman -> Firemanship
25. Ambulance -> First Aid
26. First Aid to Animals
27. Forestry
28. Gardener -> Gardening
29. Handicraft
30. Horseman ->Horsemanship
31. Interpreting
32. Invention
33. Leatherworking
34. Lifesaving
35. Machinery
36. Marksmanship
37. Masonry
38. Mining
39. Musician ->Music
40. Ornithology
41. Painting
42. Pathfinding
43. Personal Health
44. Photography
45. Pioneering
46. Plumbing
47. Poultry Farming
48. Printing
49. Public Health
50. Scholarship
51. Sculpture
52. Seamanship
53. Signaling
54. Stalker -> Stalking
55. Surveying
56. Swimming
57. Taxidermy