141-143, 1876.) [4] _Ibid._, p.

194.
[5] A small town in southwestern France, near Lourdes and Pau; it is about eight miles north of Tarbes, in Gascony.
[6] _Revue de Gascogne_, pp.

264-269, 1876.
[7] The abbe attempts to answer the question as to what place gave origin to the name of Lamarck, and says: "The author of the history of Bearn considered the cradle of the race to have been the freehold of Marca, parish of Gou (Basses-Pyrenees).

A branch of the family established in le Magnoac changed its name of Marca to that of La Marque." It was M.d'Ossat who gave rise to this change by addressing his letters to M.de Marca (at the time when he was preceptor of his nephew), sometimes under the name of M.Marca, sometimes _M.

la Marqua_, or of _M.