Of glacial geologists the United states has produced a goodly number during the past seven or eight decades, but of glaciologists—students of living glaciers and glacier‐ice—this country has at no time possessed more than a scanty few. It is therefore a particularly grievous blow to American science that of the handful of glaciologists of the present time we should have lost through the death of MAX HARRISON DEMOREST one of the most brilliant and, even in his youth, most outstanding.From the meager advices given out by the War Department it appears that Demorest, who was commissioned a First Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps and was stationed at a remote outpost in Greenland, lost his life on November 30, 1942, in an accident with a motor‐sled. We may derive some slight satisfaction from the knowledge that he did not fall before a brutal foe, but met death while on an errand of mercy in a brave attempt to rescue the crew of an army plane that had been forced down on the inhospitable ice‐sheet. Of the nature of the accident, no details have been