This mouse named Waterhouse (after Alfred Waterhouse the architect), will appear in a forthcoming book for the Natural History Museum, London. The mouse, who lives in the Museum, embarks on a search outside for a new species of dinosaur which is bigger that seven male African elephants.

I am impressed by the number of buildings in London that Alfred Waterhouse designed, which I hadn’t realised were his work. But in retrospect, the style is very distinctive. Originally from Manchester, he moved his practice to London in the 1860s.

I like the idea of a mouse having his name and living in the Museum and knowing very square inch of the Museum and its contents. Unlike Waterhouse the man, the mouse is not a Quaker.