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ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION

2.REASONS FOR A NEW FORM CLASSIFICATION

3.OUTLINE OF THE NEW FORM CLASSIFICATION
3.1.The Terminology for the Fundamental Parameter
3.2.Secondary Parameters: the "Form Family"
3.3.Secondary Parameters: the "Inclination Class"
3.4.Generalities Concerning the Classification System

4.SOME PHOTOGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS
4.1.The Amount of Information in a Photographic Image of a Galaxy
4.2.The Photographic Gradation of the Prints

5.A DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW CLASSIFICATION IN TERMS OF THE STANDARD GALAXIES
5.1.The I Systems (Plates I-V)
5.2.The S Systems (Plates VI-XVI)
5.3.The B Systems (Plates XVII-XIX)
5.4.The D Systems (Plates XX-XXIV)
5.5.Systems With Peculiar or Complex Nuclei (Plates XXV-XXVII)

6.REASONS FOR A NEW CLASSIFICATION. CONCLUSION

7.TABLE I

8.NOTES TO TABLE I

PLATE 1 PLATE 2
PLATE 3 PLATE 4
PLATE 5 PLATE 6
PLATE 7 PLATE 8
PLATE 9 PLATE 10
PLATE 11 PLATE 12
PLATE 13 PLATE 14
PLATE 15 PLATE 16
PLATE 17 PLATE 18
PLATE 19 PLATE 20
PLATE 21 PLATE 22
PLATE 23 PLATE 24
PLATE 25 PLATE 26
PLATE 27