From Henry Disney, University Museum of Zoology
Cambridge
Your report of Stephen Salter’s splendid Dervish machine for clearing land
mines (Technology, 9 March, p 25—see also “Just one false step”, this
issue, p 32) has prompted some of us to establish an appeal fund to get this
project operational. To complete the R&D road-holding and radio-navigation
trials for the Dervish will cost about £10 000. To complete the initial
project to build 10 machines and to ship them to three affected countries
(probably Cambodia, Afghanistan and Angola) will raise the sum required to
£348 000.
Donations should be made out to Church of the Good Shepherd (Dervish
Fund— Account No. 40080950). The account is held in a Cambridge branch of
Barclays Bank (sort code 20-17-35). Donations can be paid direct, through a
bank, or sent to Dervish Project, 38 Metcalfe Road, Cambridge CB4 2DD. Please
enclose SAE if you would like a receipt. We hope New Scientist readers
will help publicise this appeal.
