ANN ARBOR, MI — Rodent skulls. Dead caecilians. Beetles. Coral snakes in jars. An extinct anole from Puerto Rico. Cordyceps. Plants that smell like gym socks. Squeamish readers, look away. This is how ...

The Duke Herbarium, one of the largest herbaria in the country, will shut down and have its plants relocated in the next two to three years, according to a Tuesday email obtained by The Chronicle.

Tucked into a corner of DeVries Hall on Calvin's campus is an oddly shaped room containing a trove of biological treasures. Called simply the Herbarium, the windowless space, whose roots go back to ...