  It is widely written and believed that Edwin Hubble introduced the terms
`early' and `late types' to suggest an evolutionary sequence for galaxies. This
is incorrect. Hubble took these terms from spectral classification of stars to
signify a sequence related to complexity of appearance, albeit based on images
rather than spectra. The temporal connotations of the terms had been abandoned
prior to his 1926 paper on classification of galaxies.
