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Sunny Corner, Broken Hill, and Mount Morgan. For many 

 years he worked at the problem of finding a vaccine which 

 would enable persons to be inoculated against snake-bite, 

 and in connection with his experiments he got together 

 500 Australian snakes and periodically extracted their 

 venom. His greatest achievement was his successful 

 treatment of the disease known as anthrax among cattle 

 and sheep, and he presented the State Government with 

 the formula for the preparation of a vaccine, and also 

 endowed a new institute for the purpose of manufacturing 

 and distributing the vaccine by a board controlling this 

 McGarvie Smith Institute. He married the widow of 

 Daniel Henry Deniehy a well-known Australian Orator, 

 but she predeceased him by many years. 



Horace Taylor, j.p., was elected a member of this 

 Society in 1906, and died on the 10th February, 1919. He 

 was connected with a city business firm for thirty years, 

 but also took a great interest in the dental profession, and 

 was secretary to a committee of dentists formed in the 

 early nineties to prepare a Dental Bill, which later became 

 law, when Mr. Taylor was appointed Registrar of the 

 Dental Board constituted by the Government to administer 

 the Act. He occupied the position of Registrar for about 

 eighteen years. 



II. The Development of the Mineral Industry of the State. 



One of the most important post war problems that has 

 to be met is connected with the mineral industry, affecting 

 both the producer and the manufacturer, and the closely 

 associated employment of labour. The war has stimulated 

 the production of certain metals, reviving the industry and 

 enhancing the value of the product, and the cessation of 

 hostilities will, at any rate, greatly diminish the immediate 

 demand for the finished product. This will entail increased 

 investigation by the State, both as regards the capabilities 



