Gully had pestered Darwin to subject himself to clairvoyance, and when he saw the clairvoyant, he tried to test her by asking her to read the number on a banknote he had in an envelope, but she scornfully said this was something her maidservant did and proceeded to diagnose horrors in Darwin's insides, a tale he recounted for years afterwards. كان غولي يزعج داروين لإخضاع نفسه للعرافة ، وعندما رأى العرافه حاول أن يختبرها بطلبها قراءة الرقم على ورقة نقدية كانت لديه في ظرف ، لكنها قالت بازدراء أن هذا ما فعلته خادمتها وشرعت في ذلك.