Astron. Astrophys. 323, 337-348 (1997)

Acknowledgements

We thank E. Salvador-Solé for valuable comments which helped us clarify the discussion, and G. Longo for carefully reading the manuscript. We are indebted to S. van der Bergh for pointing out to us the morphological difference between bars in lenticulars and in spirals. We thank J.-P. Kneib and P. Belloni for releasing Seitz et al.'s (1996) and Belloni & Röser's (1996) Cl 0939 galaxy catalogues in advance of publication. We also thank D. Bottini. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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