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A growing literature emphasizes the importance of managing the adverse effects of climate change on animal and plant species, biological communities, natural areas, and ecosystems. Although replete with general 'climate adaptation' strategies, this literature provides relatively limited guidance on translating these strategies into actionable conservation prescriptions. This review synthesizes information from the conservation planning and climate adaptation literature, including climate adaptation plans developed in Canada, England, México, South Africa, and USA, and presents elements of a general approach for developing actionable adaptation measures for wildlife species and conservation areas. Grounded in an adaptive management framework, this approach incorporates existing conservation tools for land and water protection, land and water management, species conservation, and monitoring, and also integrates new information from climate models, sensitivity analyses, and vulnerability assessments for species and ecosystems.

The 770 remaining specimens of the entomological collection of Thomas Say presently housed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology are catalogued for the first time, including 71 specimens representing 56 species described by Say which are labelled in Say's handwriting and which are probably those specimens on which Say's species descriptions were based. The history of the Say entomological collection is recounted. Based on signatures on labels in the present Say collection material, it is apparent that Say exchanged specimens with many European entomologists, including Dupont, Germar, Laporte de Castelnau, Motschulsky, Schoenherr, Sturm, and Wiedemann. A protocol for the designation of Say lectotypes and neotypes is proposed.

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