Unpublished paper, 'A new method of solving numerical equations' by Thomas Weddle Weddle aims to develop a new, simple method of 'approximating to the real roots of numerical equations' and provides examples of his method. Marked on back as 'Archives 10 June 1841 S H C [Samuel Hunter Christie]'. Subject: Mathematics / Arithmetic Received 29 August 1840. Communicated by S [Samuel] Hunter Christie. Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'A new method of solving numerical equations'. August 1840