 Bruce 's collection of specimens , gathered from more than a decade of Arctic and Antarctic travel , required a permanent home . Bruce himself needed a base from which the detailed scientific reports of the Scotia voyage could be prepared for publication . He obtained premises in Nicolson Street , Edinburgh , in which he established a laboratory and museum , naming it the Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory , with the ultimate ambition that it should become the Scottish National Oceanographic Institute . It was officially opened by Prince Albert of Monaco in 1906 . 
