Evan Asprey Sulman died on May 30th, 1909.
He was born in 1865, and studied chemistry, electrical engineering and metallurgy at the Central Technical Institute, London. He gained experience in mining and ore-reduction in England, France and the United States of America, but his professional career was spent mainly in the Far East. He was a member of the earliest mining expeditions sent to Central Siberia, and he prospected and explored routes into Northern and Western Mongolia. He crossed Siberia from East to West several times before the construction of the railway, and developed gold mines on the River Lena, in Trans-Baikal, in Korea and in Vladivostok.
He was engaged in various mining and metallurgical enterprises in Japan, and he developed the Bandwen Mine in the Eastern Shan States of Burma. The privations and hardships Mr. Sulman experienced in his pioneer work in these countries, conducted almost continuously for a number of years, seriously undermined his health, and he was an invalid for some months before his death.
Mr. Sulman was elected a Member of the Institution in 1901.
Vol. 71, Trans I.M.M., 1961-62, p.200
