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**_**Transforming Anthropology**_**, the flagship journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists, seeks to advance scholarship across the four fields of anthropology and beyond.

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The first issue of the _International Journal of Plant Sciences_ (_IJPS_; then named the _Botanical Bulletin_) was published in November 1875. To mark the journal’s 150th birthday, we have solicited short appreciations of our editors’, authors’, and readers’ favorite _IJPS_ papers for a new section entitled From the Archives.

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