The morphological scheme devised by Hubble and followers to classify galaxies has proven over many decades to be quite effective in directing our quest for the fundamental pa- rameters describing the extragalactic manifold. This statement is however far more true for spirals than for ellipticals. Echoing the concluding remarks in Scott Tremaine's sum- mary talk at the Princeton meeting on Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies, "the Hubble classification of spirals is useful because many properties of spirals (gas con- tent, spiral arm morphology, bulge prominence, etc. ) all correlate...
The morphological scheme devised by Hubble and followers to classify galaxies has proven over many decades to be quite effective in directing our ques...