The problem of non-access to types has more to do with particular institutions than with continents. The few collections making problems over types have been identified, and they are certainly not all of them in Europe. On this I fully agree, and I will do everything I can to support students visiting us and using our collections. Students will then quickly find that they can do 100 times more valuable work with fresh, nice specimens in large series than with some hyped old scaleless, finless, featherless, wingless and legless types from who knows where.
Images are now also available to some extent for both plants and animals.
It covers both botanical and zoological collections. We will appreciate the assistance from specialists in revising the old collection, types or not types.