1860.  August 18th.—­Death of Madame Barop (Emilie Froebel).

1861.  The Baroness Bertha Von Marenholtz-Buelow promotes the foundation
       of the Journal The Education of the Future, and Dr. Carl
       Schmidt of Coethen undertakes the editorship.

1874.  April.—­Madame Michaelis comes to England to assist the
       Kindergarten movement.  Is appointed in the summer to lecture to
       the school-board teachers at Croydon.  Founds Croydon
       Kindergarten, January 1875, with Mrs. Berry.

Nov.—­The London School Board appoint Miss Bishop (pupil of Miss Praetorius) as their first lecturer on the Kindergarten System to their teachers of infant schools.  About the same time Miss Heerwart (who had left Manchester to found a Kindergarten of her own in Dublin in 1866) is appointed principal of the Kindergarten Training College established at Stockwell by the British and Foreign School Society.

The Froebel Society of London is formed by Miss Doreck, Miss Heerwart, Miss Bishop, Madame Michaelis, Professor Joseph Payne, and Miss Manning; Miss Doreck being the first president.  Very soon these were joined by Miss Shireff (president since 1877, when Miss Doreck died), by her sister Mrs. William Grey, by Miss Mary Gurney, and by many other well-known friends of educational progress.

1879.  Autumn.—­The London Kindergarten Training College is founded by
       the Froebel Society, but as a separate association (dissolved
       1883).

1880.  May.—­The Croydon Kindergarten Company (Limited), is founded to
       extend Madame Michaelis’s work in teaching and training, Madame
       Michaelis becoming the Company’s head mistress.

1882.  Langethal died.  Celebration of the Centenary of Froebel’s birth
       by a concert, given at Willis’s Rooms, London, on the part of the
       Froebel Society, to raise funds for a memorial Kindergarten at
       Blankenburg, by a fund raised at Croydon for the same purpose,
       and by a soiree and conversazione, presided over by Mr. W.
       Woodall, M.P., given at the Stockwell Training College by the
       British and Foreign School Society.

1883.  January.—­The Bedford Kindergarten Company (Limited) founded,
       mainly upon the lines of the Croydon Company.  First (and present)
       head mistress, Miss Sim.

       Miss Heerwart goes to Blankenburg to found the memorial
       Kindergarten there.

1884.  International Exhibition, South Kensington (Health and
       Education).  A Conference on Education was held in June, the
       section devoted to Infant Education being largely taken up with
       an important discussion of Froebel’s principles, in which
       speakers of other nations joined the English authorities in
       debate.