So he moved to psychiatry taking up employment as assistant physician at the largest asylum of the canton Zürich in Rheinau and for some time also working at the psychiatric cl inic of the University of Zürich to become better acquainted with the requirements of this field of medicine. [...] Among the achievements of Ris during his time at Rheinau were the addition of new buildings and the refurbishment of the old ones, which tasks had to be planned and the funds for them obtained from the cantonal authorities by good reasoning for the expen- diture. [...] The conditions in the third order of the ‘Neuroptera’ in the former sense, the Plecoptera, differed a little, as his teacher Gustav Schoch in 1886 already had published a compen- dium of the Swiss taxa. [...] Finally Ris purchased the ‘Neuroptera’ adding the Odonata to his collection, but with the Trichoptera he endowed Georg Ulmer (1877-1963) at Hamburg, a specialist, who had described this order from the Selys collection in 1907-08; the Plecoptera were 8 | IDF-Report 155 The scientific names of Ris’ odonate taxa given to a Belgian specialist, the Neuroptera in modern sense to P. [...] 80) ex- cept for a a peculiarity of the second tergite of the males which is at the base of the name.
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