Albert Curtis Perveil died at Brooklyn, New York, on May 30th, 1916, after a very severe illness, which extended over two years. He was 43 years of age.
Dr. Perveil was originally educated for the medical profession, and in 1894 received the degree of M.D. from the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York. For the next ten years he held various medical appointments, the last two of which were posts as medical officer on gold mines in West Africa. Here he acquired some knowledge of assaying, and became interested in mining and prospecting. He filled temporarily the position of assayer to the Bibiani Goldfields, and then came to England, and in the spring of 1905 took a course of assaying at Mr. G.T. Holloway’s laboratories. He next proceeded to Abyssinia, and for eight months was assistant engineer and assayer to the Mendi Syndicate, after which he returned to England and resumed his studies under Mr. Holloway until the end of 1906.
Early in 1907 he again set out for Africa, and spent seven years prospecting in various parts of the interior. For two years he was working in French West Africa and French Sudan; and during the remaining five years he was in Congo-Belge, where he held the post of prospector to the Chemin de Fer des Grands Lacs, and afterwards a similar position with the Sociéte Anonyme des Recherches Minières de Bas Katanga. He returned to England in 1914, and after a stay of rather more than a year in this country he crossed the Atlantic to New York, and resided in Brooklyn until his death, which occurred nine -months later.
Dr. Perveil was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1905, and was transferred to Associateship in 1916.
Vol. 26, Trans I.M.M., 1916-17, pp.274-5
