OM77-47 Silvester Diggles Papers, 27 Aug 1874.

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OM77-47 Silvester Diggles Papers, 27 Aug 1874.

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Diggles, Silvester, 1817-1880

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Silvester Diggles was born in England and emigrated to Sydney in 1853. He moved to Brisbane in 1854 where he established himself as a music teacher and natural history artist. He was the founder of the Brisbane Choral Society and the Brisbane Philharmonic Society and a co-founder of the Queensland Philosophical Society. Between 1865 and 1870 Diggles published "The Ornithology of Australia" in 21 parts. From the description of OM77-47 Silvester Diggles Papers, 27 Aug 1874. (Libraries ...