The most important result of all this agitation was the appointment (April 5, 1887) of a commission of three by the ministry of church and school affairs (_Ministeriet for Kirke- og Undervisningsvæsenet_), to recommend improvements in gymnastics as taught in the schools and to present plans for the founding and organizing of an institution in which men and women should be trained as teachers of gymnastics. Its members were Lieutenant-Colonel Amsinck, the new state inspector of gymnastics, chairman, communal physician (_Kommunelæge_) Axel Hertel, and Professor K. Kroman. They spent several weeks in Stockholm, at the _Centralinstitut_ and in the schools, and then went to Berlin for a similar purpose. Upon their return they submitted a report (April, 1888) containing a number of definite suggestions for the better organization of physical education, the training of teachers, and the grouping of exercises in a lesson plan. They also proposed the appointment of a second and larger commission which should prepare a new manual of school gymnastics along the lines indicated. This body was accordingly named November 30, 1889. It included the former members, with the addition of _Kommunelæge_ Chr. Fenger, regimental surgeon (_Korpslæge_) Johan Kier, Cand. polyt. N. H. Rasmussen, and the head of _Hærens Gymnastikskole_, Captain L. V. Schleppegrell. The result of their labors was the “Handbook of Gymnastics” (_Haandbog i Gymnastik_) published in 1899[148] and at once authorized by the government for use in all schools under its control. The new manual follows the general principles of the Ling gymnastics and adopts practically all of the Swedish exercises, but uses also many of the forms already current in Denmark, and introduces exercises on the horizontal and parallel bars, flying rings, and trapeze along with others which require the apparatus commonly found in gymnasia in Sweden.